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+# vim: set ts=2 sts=2 sw=2 expandtab :
+dist: xenial
+sudo: required
+language: bash
+services:
+  - docker
+
+# Trigger only on the travis branch
+# Remove the lines if every thing is ok.
+branches:
+  only:
+  - travis
+
+before_install:
+  - curl -Ls -o docker-build https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-dev-scripts/raw/master/travis/docker-build
+  - chmod +x docker-build
+
+install:
+  - sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-setuptools
+  - sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
+  - sudo pip install PyGithub
+  - ./docker-build --name ${DISTRO} --config .travis.yml --install
+
+script:
+  - ./docker-build --name ${DISTRO} --verbose --config .travis.yml --build autotools
+
+env:
+  - DISTRO="archlinux/base"
+  - DISTRO="debian:sid"
+  - DISTRO="fedora:29"
+  - DISTRO="ubuntu:18.10"
+
+##########################################################
+# THE FOLLOWING LINES IS USED BY docker-build
+##########################################################
+requires:
+  archlinux:
+    # Useful URL: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/mate-indicator-applet
+    - gcc
+    - git
+    - gtk3
+    - libindicator-gtk3
+    - make
+    - mate-common
+    - mate-panel
+    - which
+
+  debian:
+    # Useful URL: https://github.com/mate-desktop/debian-packages
+    # Useful URL: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-mate-team/mate-indicator-applet
+    - git
+    - intltool
+    - libgtk-3-dev
+    - libindicator3-dev
+    - libmate-panel-applet-dev
+    - libtool
+    - libx11-dev
+    - libxml2-dev
+    - make
+    - mate-common
+
+  fedora:
+    # Useful URL: https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mate-indicator-applet.git
+    - gcc
+    - git
+    - gtk3-devel
+    - libindicator-gtk3-devel
+    - make
+    - mate-common
+    - mate-panel-devel
+    - redhat-rpm-config
+
+  ubuntu:
+    - git
+    - intltool
+    - libgtk-3-dev
+    - libido3-0.1-dev
+    - libindicator3-dev
+    - libmate-panel-applet-dev
+    - libtool
+    - libx11-dev
+    - libxml2-dev
+    - make
+    - mate-common
+
+variables:
+  - CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror=format-security"
+
+before_scripts:
+  - if [ ${DISTRO_NAME} == "debian" ];then
+  -     curl -Ls -o debian.sh https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-dev-scripts/raw/master/travis/debian.sh
+  -     bash ./debian.sh
+  - fi
+
+after_scripts:
+  - make distcheck