diff --git a/recipes/libass/libass.inc b/recipes/libass/libass.inc
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+++ b/recipes/libass/libass.inc
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+DESCRIPTION = "libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format. It is mostly compatible with VSFilter."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://code.google.com/p/libass/"
+SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
+LICENSE = "ISC"
+DEPENDS = "enca fontconfig freetype libpng"
+INC_PR = "r0"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://${PN}.googlecode.com/files/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig
+
+OE_EXTRACONF = " \
+  --enable-enca \
+	--enable-fontconfig \
+	--enable-png \
+"
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-tests"
+
+FILES_${PN}-tests = " \
+	${libdir}/test/test
+"
diff --git a/recipes/libass/libass_0.9.11.bb b/recipes/libass/libass_0.9.11.bb
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+require ${PN}.inc
+PR = "${INC_PR}.0"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "f9042884397002ba40aa89dc7d34f59f"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ffd0a7ccf635c4795edb8f61015b47ff84ec9c5babf502dd2cc8223d4489745c"