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+Summary: APPLICATION_SUMMARY
+Name: APPLICATION_PACKAGE
+Version: APPLICATION_VERSION
+Release: APPLICATION_RELEASE
+License: APPLICATION_LICENSE_TYPE
+Vendor: APPLICATION_VENDOR
+Prefix: %{dirname:APPLICATION_DIRECTORY}
+Provides: APPLICATION_PACKAGE
+%if "xAPPLICATION_GROUP" != x
+Group: APPLICATION_GROUP
+%endif
+
+Autoprov: 0
+Autoreq: 0
+%if "xPACKAGE_DEFAULT_DEPENDENCIES" != x || "xPACKAGE_CUSTOM_DEPENDENCIES" != x
+Requires: PACKAGE_DEFAULT_DEPENDENCIES PACKAGE_CUSTOM_DEPENDENCIES
+%endif
+
+#avoid ARCH subfolder
+%define _rpmfilename %%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm
+
+#comment line below to enable effective jar compression
+#it could easily get your package size from 40 to 15Mb but
+#build time will substantially increase and it may require unpack200/system java to install
+%define __jar_repack %{nil}
+
+%description
+APPLICATION_DESCRIPTION
+
+%prep
+
+%build
+
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+install -d -m 755 %{buildroot}APPLICATION_DIRECTORY
+cp -r %{_sourcedir}APPLICATION_DIRECTORY/* %{buildroot}APPLICATION_DIRECTORY
+%if "xAPPLICATION_LICENSE_FILE" != x
+  %define license_install_file %{_defaultlicensedir}/%{name}-%{version}/%{basename:APPLICATION_LICENSE_FILE}
+  install -d -m 755 %{buildroot}%{dirname:%{license_install_file}}
+  install -m 644 APPLICATION_LICENSE_FILE %{buildroot}%{license_install_file}
+%endif
+
+%files
+%if "xAPPLICATION_LICENSE_FILE" != x
+  %license %{license_install_file}
+  %{dirname:%{license_install_file}}
+%endif
+# If installation directory for the application is /a/b/c, we want only root
+# component of the path (/a) in the spec file to make sure all subdirectories
+# are owned by the package.
+%(echo APPLICATION_DIRECTORY | sed -e "s|\(^/[^/]\{1,\}\).*$|\1|")
+
+%post
+install -D -m0755 /opt/jabref/lib/native-messaging-host/firefox/org.jabref.jabref.json /usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json
+install -D -m0755 /opt/jabref/lib/native-messaging-host/chromium/org.jabref.jabref.json /etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json
+install -D -m0755 /opt/jabref/lib/native-messaging-host/chromium/org.jabref.jabref.json /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json
+DESKTOP_COMMANDS_INSTALL
+
+%preun
+for NATIVE_MESSAGING_JSON in "/usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json"\
+                             "/etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json"\
+                             "/etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/org.jabref.jabref.json"; do
+    if [ -e $NATIVE_MESSAGING_JSON ] && grep --quiet '"path": "/opt' $NATIVE_MESSAGING_JSON; then
+        rm $NATIVE_MESSAGING_JSON
+    fi
+done
+UTILITY_SCRIPTS
+DESKTOP_COMMANDS_UNINSTALL
+
+%clean
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