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+# Template file for 'python2-html2text'
+# Remove after calibre moves to py3
+pkgname=python-html2text
+version=2019.8.11
+revision=2
+archs=noarch
+wrksrc="${pkgname#*-}-${version}"
+build_style=python2-module
+pycompile_module="html2text"
+hostmakedepends="python-setuptools"
+depends="python"
+short_desc="HTML to Markdown-formatted text converter (Python2)"
+maintainer="q66 <daniel@octaforge.org>"
+license="GPL-3.0-only"
+homepage="https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/"
+distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/h/html2text/html2text-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=f516b9c10284174e2a974d86f91cab02b3cf983a17752075da751af0e895ef5e
+
+post_install() {
+	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin
+	# for some reason the permissions are wrong (600)
+	chmod 644 ${DESTDIR}/${py2_sitelib}/html2text-*.egg-info/*
+}