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+/plexus-xml-3.0.0.tar.gz
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+%bcond_with bootstrap
+
+Name:           plexus-xml
+Version:        3.0.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Plexus XML Utilities
+# Licensing breakdown:
+# Apache-1.1: src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/StringUtils.java
+# xpp: src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/pull/MXParser.java
+# Everything else is Apache-2.0
+License:        Apache-1.1 AND Apache-2.0 AND xpp
+URL:            https://codehaus-plexus.github.io/plexus-xml/
+BuildArch:      noarch
+ExclusiveArch:  %{java_arches} noarch
+
+Source0:        https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/%{name}/archive/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+%if %{with bootstrap}
+BuildRequires:  javapackages-bootstrap
+%else
+BuildRequires:  maven-local
+BuildRequires:  mvn(org.codehaus.plexus:plexus:pom:)
+%endif
+
+%description
+A collection of various utility classes to ease working with XML.
+
+%{?javadoc_package}
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{name}-%{name}-%{version}
+
+%build
+# Test dependencies are not packaged
+%mvn_build -f
+
+%install
+%mvn_install
+
+%files -f .mfiles
+%doc README.md
+%license NOTICE.txt LICENSE.txt
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Feb  2 2024 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@redhat.com> - 3.0.0-1
+- Initial packaging
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+SHA512 (plexus-xml-3.0.0.tar.gz) = 43a5e35a11b7c245fb0751d3dc5e33a223ae50e1dc5da11ba4dc1730f133bea334a856b4bf0f0259c66c70916178335f9f49a50c4a677fd280176807ee81c33f