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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PyKombu(PythonPackage):
+    """Messaging library for Python."""
+
+    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/kombu/"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/k/kombu/kombu-4.3.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('4.6.6', sha256='1760b54b1d15a547c9a26d3598a1c8cdaf2436386ac1f5561934bc8a3cbbbd86')
+    version('4.5.0', sha256='389ba09e03b15b55b1a7371a441c894fd8121d174f5583bbbca032b9ea8c9edd')
+    version('4.3.0', sha256='529df9e0ecc0bad9fc2b376c3ce4796c41b482cf697b78b71aea6ebe7ca353c8')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.7:2.8,3.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-amqp@2.5.2:2.5.999', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-importlib-metadata@0.18:', type=('build', 'run'))