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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright 2018 Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr> -->
+<component type="console-application">
+  <id>io.poez.Poezio</id>
+  <name>Poezio</name>
+  <summary>Poezio is a free console XMPP client</summary>
+  <project_license>Zlib</project_license>
+  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
+
+  <url type="homepage">https://poez.io</url>
+  <url type="bugtracker">https://dev.louiz.org/projects/poezio/issues</url>
+  <url type="help">https://doc.poez.io/</url>
+
+  <icon width="80" height="80">data/poezio_80.png</icon>
+  <screenshots>
+    <screenshot type="default">
+      <image>https://poez.io/img/screenshot.png</image>
+      <caption>Screenshot of poezio’s room tab</caption>
+    </screenshot>
+  </screenshots>
+
+  <categories>
+    <category>ncurses</category>
+    <category>InstantMessaging</category>
+    <category>Network</category>
+  </categories>
+  <provides>
+    <binary>poezio</binary>
+  </provides>
+  <developer_name>Poezio Team</developer_name>
+  <releases>
+    <release version="0.11" date="2017-01-31"/>
+    <release version="0.10" date="2016-10-09"/>
+    <release version="0.9" date="2015-07-31"/>
+    <release version="0.8.1" date="2014-03-20"/>
+    <release version="0.8" date="2014-02-22"/>
+    <release version="0.7.5.2" date="2012-06-25"/>
+    <release version="0.7.5.1" date="2012-06-24"/>
+    <release version="0.7.5" date="2012-05-25"/>
+    <release version="0.7.2" date="2011-11-08"/>
+    <release version="0.7.1" date="2011-02-02"/>
+    <release version="0.7" date="2011-01-14"/>
+    <release version="0.6.2" date="2010-07-21"/>
+    <release version="0.6.1" date="2010-06-13"/>
+    <release version="0.6" date="2010-06-13"/>
+    <release version="0.5.1" date="2010-02-02"/>
+    <release version="0.5" date="2010-02-01"/>
+  </releases>
+</component>