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+DIST vala-syntax-20200502.tar.gz 22116 BLAKE2B 0030f8b19166a7bd8833f594d4ac26e705f45e5022bd3c91023a6b5e6faa7f46bebb57420cb91605b94b0995f2828a25f29d4619362d0929758b444da5787f4c SHA512 4521ab8042bf654189ea87a31b2c1a9214dca759bce58f659735b4da362ab2f49796ee0798534f7c6a52c3198fc106e62a4a4bcf49dd80509494384f016d5069
diff --git a/app-vim/vala-syntax/vala-syntax-20200502.ebuild b/app-vim/vala-syntax/vala-syntax-20200502.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit vim-plugin
+
+MY_PN="vala.vim"
+COMMIT="ce569e187bf8f9b506692ef08c10b584595f8e2d"
+DESCRIPTION="vim plugin: vala language support"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/vala-lang/vala.vim https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Vim"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/vala-lang/${MY_PN}/archive/${COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${COMMIT}"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"