diff --git a/packages/libuchardet/build.sh b/packages/libuchardet/build.sh
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+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="An encoding detector library"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="custom"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE_FILE="COPYING"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.0.7
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.freedesktop.org/software/uchardet/releases/uchardet-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=3fc79408ae1d84b406922fa9319ce005631c95ca0f34b205fad867e8b30e45b1
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++"
diff --git a/packages/libuchardet/uchardet.subpackage.sh b/packages/libuchardet/uchardet.subpackage.sh
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+TERMUX_SUBPKG_INCLUDE="bin/ share/man/man1/"
+TERMUX_SUBPKG_DESCRIPTION="An encoding detector utility"