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+# Copyright 2013-2022 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+# Copyright 2023 EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class Tnftp(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Tnftp is an FTP client. It is the default FTP client included with many
+    BSD operating systems and Darwin"""
+
+    homepage = "https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/net/tnftpd/README.html"
+    url = "https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/tnftp-20230507.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers("EbiArnie")
+
+    version("20230507", sha256="be0134394bd7d418a3b34892b0709eeb848557e86474e1786f0d1a887d3a6580")
+
+    depends_on("bison")
+    depends_on("ncurses")