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+Name:		librdkafka
+Version:	0.11.4
+Release:	1%{?dist}
+Summary:	The Apache Kafka C library
+
+Group:		Development/Libraries
+License:	BSD
+URL:		https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
+Source0:	https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires:	gcc
+BuildRequires:	gcc-c++
+BuildRequires:	python3
+BuildRequires:  openssl-devel
+BuildRequires:  cyrus-sasl-devel
+BuildRequires:  lz4-devel
+
+Patch1: librdkafka-python3.patch 
+
+%description
+Librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol,
+containing both Producer and Consumer support.
+It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind,
+current figures exceed 800000 messages/second for the producer and 3 million
+messages/second for the consumer.
+
+%package	devel
+Summary:	The Apache Kafka C library (Development Environment)
+Group:		Development/Libraries
+Requires:	%{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description	devel
+librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol,
+containing both Producer and Consumer support.
+This package contains headers and libraries required to build applications
+using librdkafka.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%patch1 -p1 -b .python3
+
+%build
+%configure --enable-lz4 \
+           --enable-ssl \
+           --enable-sasl
+
+%make_build
+
+%check
+make check
+
+%install
+%make_install
+find %{buildroot} -name '*.a' -delete -print
+
+%post	-p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun	-p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka.so.*
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka++.so.*
+%doc README.md CONFIGURATION.md INTRODUCTION.md
+%license LICENSE LICENSE.pycrc LICENSE.snappy
+
+%files devel
+%dir %{_includedir}/librdkafka
+%attr(0644,root,root) %{_includedir}/librdkafka/*
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka.so
+%{_libdir}/librdkafka++.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka.pc
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka++.pc
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka-static.pc
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/rdkafka++-static.pc
+
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Feb 08 2019 Jiri Vymazal <jvymazal@redhat.com> - 0.11.4-1
+- rebase to v0.11.4 (0.11.5 was breaking rsyslog-kafka)
+  resolves: rhbz#1614697
+
+* Fri Aug 10 2018 Jiri Vymazal <jvymazal@redhat.com> - 0.11.5-1
+- rebase to v0.11.5
+  resolves: rhbz#1614697
+- removed explicit %attr on symlinks
+
+* Thu Jun 28 2018 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> - 0.11.0-2
+- switch from python2 to python3
+  resolves: rhbz#1595795
+
+* Thu Aug 31 2017 Michal Luscon <mluscon@gmail.com> - 0.11.0-1
+- Update to 0.11.0
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon May 22 2017 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> - 0.9.5-1
+- Update to 0.9.4
+
+* Sat Mar 11 2017 Michal Luscon <mluscon@gmail.com> - 0.9.4-1
+- Update to 0.9.4
+- enable lz4, ssl, sasl
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.2-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+
+* Fri Nov 11 2016 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> 0.9.2-1
+- 0.9.2 release
+- package created