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+figtoipe-20080505.tar.gz
diff --git a/figtoipe.spec b/figtoipe.spec
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+Name:           figtoipe
+Version:        20080505
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+Summary:        FIG to IPE conversion tool
+
+Group:          Applications/Publishing       
+#
+# GPLv2, with an exception for the CGAL libraries.
+License:        GPLv2+ with exceptions
+#
+URL:            http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe/
+Source0:        http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/3343/figtoipe-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1:        http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+BuildRequires:  zlib-devel, perl
+
+%description
+Figtoipe is a program that reads FIG files (as generated by
+xfig) and generates an XML file readable by the Ipe editor.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+sed -i -e 's/\r//' README figtoipe.cpp
+chmod a-x README figtoipe.cpp
+
+# extract the changelog from figtoipe.cpp
+perl -ne 'if(m|\* Changes| .. m|\*/|) { m| \* (.*)| && print "$1\n";}' < figtoipe.cpp > CHANGES
+# extract the license terms from figtoipe.cpp
+perl -ne 'if(m|This file| .. m| USA.$|) { print;}' < figtoipe.cpp > LICENSE
+
+cp %{SOURCE1} .
+
+%build
+%{__cxx} %{optflags} -o figtoipe figtoipe.cpp -lz
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}
+install -m 755 figtoipe $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man1
+install -m 644 figtoipe.1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man1
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc README CHANGES gpl-2.0.txt LICENSE
+%{_bindir}/figtoipe
+%{_mandir}/man1/figtoipe.1.gz
+
+%changelog
+* Mon May 19 2008 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora@normalesup.org> - 20080505-2
+- Do not compress man pages during builds (done by rpm).
+
+* Sat May 17 2008 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora@normalesup.org> - 20080505-1
+- New upstream release.
+
+* Fri May 16 2008 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora@normalesup.org> - 20071004-5
+- Add a copy of the figtoipe.cpp header in license.txt
+
+* Fri Feb 15 2008 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora@normalesup.org> - 20071004-4
+- Add a license file.
+- Fix the BR: zlib-devel
+
+* Thu Feb 14 2008 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora@normalesup.org> - 20071004-3
+- Extract the changelog from figtoipe.cpp
+
+* Thu Feb 14 2008 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora@normalesup.org> - 20071004-2
+- Add the man page.
+
+* Tue Feb 12 2008 Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora@normalesup.org> - 20071004-1
+- Initial build for Fedora.
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+243c5c225d647a5076118597ec0699e6  figtoipe-20080505.tar.gz