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+#
+# Apps Packages for Chakra, part of chakra-project.org
+#
+# Maintainer: Adrián Chaves Fernández (Gallaecio) <adriyetichaves@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Stephen McIntosh (arch_is_awesome) <stephenmac7@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Robson Cardoso dos Santos <cardoso.rcs@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Ivan c00kiemon5ter Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak@gmail.com>
+
+pkgname="markdown"
+pkgver=1.0.1
+pkgrel=5
+pkgdesc="Text to (X)HTML conversion tool for web writers"
+arch=('any')
+url="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/"
+license=('BSD')
+depends=('perl')
+source=("http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/Markdown_${pkgver}.zip")
+sha256sums=('6520e9b6a58c5555e381b6223d66feddee67f675ed312ec19e9cee1b92bc0137')
+
+build() {
+  # Handling the manpage
+  pod2man "$srcdir/Markdown_$pkgver/Markdown.pl" > "$srcdir/Markdown_$pkgver/$pkgname.1"
+}
+
+package() {
+  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/Markdown_$pkgver/Markdown.pl" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
+  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/Markdown_$pkgver/License.text" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
+  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/Markdown_$pkgver/$pkgname.1" "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/$pkgname.1"
+}