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+# Maintainer: Artemis Dara
+# PKGBUILD for uninews
+pkgname=uninews
+_pkgname=UniNews # github name
+pkgver=0.1.0
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="A small desktop application that brings together news and announcements from universities into a single place."
+arch=('any')
+url="https://github.com/open-source-uom/UniNews.git"
+license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
+depends=(
+	'python'
+	'python-beautifulsoup4'
+	'python-certifi'
+	'python-charset-normalizer'
+	'python-decorator'
+	'python-feedparser'
+	'python-idna'
+	'python-markdown'
+	'python-pyqt6'
+	'python-requests'
+	'python-sgmllib3k'
+	'python-soupsieve'
+	'python-typing_extensions'
+	'python-urllib3'
+) 
+makedepends=('python-setuptools' 'git' 'python-pip')
+source=("git+https://github.com/open-source-uom/UniNews.git")
+sha256sums=('SKIP')
+
+
+prepare() {
+  # moves to src directory
+  cd "$srcdir/"
+  
+}
+
+
+pkgver() {
+  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname" || return 1
+  local version=$(git describe --long --tags 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^v//;s/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g')
+  # check if the version is valid
+  if [ -z "$version" ]; then
+    echo "0.1.0"
+  else
+    echo "$version"
+  fi
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
+  python setup.py build
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
+  python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
+  
+  # installing plyer
+  pip install --root="$pkgdir" --no-deps plyer
+  
+  # installing documentation
+  install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$_pkgname/LICENSE" 2>/dev/null || true
+  install -Dm644 README.md "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/README.md" 2>/dev/null || true
+
+}
+