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+# Copyright 2013-2020 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 PyPid(PythonPackage):
+    """Pidfile featuring stale detection and file-locking, can also be
+    used as context-manager or decorator."""
+
+    homepage = "https://pypi.org/project/pid/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/trbs/pid/archive/3.0.3.tar.gz"
+
+    version('3.0.3', sha256='082281e2f6b99b4aaa02a24ae4796c604ac17f19cdd0327b8c1ba9c2e73aadc8')
+    version('3.0.2', sha256='0be7dc260e35788163b3171a5f0e1a8b9888bc2b77232c053c042a65496b8396')
+    version('3.0.1', sha256='2f51b61210f8e1f009b09a2034717003ca22dcd86995537ecb857863bddca89a')
+    version('3.0.0', sha256='3d251eadedc6fbd1fe4b43d521e76b83afd244b8b1951a2cd96864406bc96381')
+    version('2.2.5', sha256='d4c68554bf4b2fc7d0b50749f535f5c1fceb74ff025ce1a3f06745d15c595d40')
+    version('2.2.4', sha256='de3cc35e18c5409d8424813ab422b637af4d25bfdcf2c15ee6c5af447778de22')
+    version('2.2.3', sha256='14555fc214e0dfee7d94598b759523349832597e163415d1a7b0d87d9902cc47')
+    version('2.2.2', sha256='716bb5803fed50facdb62be0e48d08dd95e7392fcfb03f5540915623f9c4ee44')
+    version('2.2.1', sha256='2c5b398d348b8b1901ccb29b5c914c583187692acfbc3c28fc4ee483b9909357')
+    version('2.2.0', sha256='f2c3beb5742159794379b73088eb3f592a4b7b93bfef95f8bbc27ab98e5394ed')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')