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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 PyPywcs(PythonPackage):
+    """pywcs is a set of routines for
+    handling the FITS World Coordinate System (WCS) standard."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/spacetelescope/pywcs"
+    url      = "https://github.com/spacetelescope/pywcs/archive/1.12.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.12.1', sha256='efd4e0ea190e3a2521ebcde583452e126acdeac85cc8a9c78c8a96f10805b5e1')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.6:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-d2to1@0.2.3:', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-stsci-distutils@0.3.2:', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-numpy@1.5.1:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pyfits@1.4:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-astropy@0.3.1:', type=('build', 'run'))