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+# Copyright 2013-2018 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 Lbzip2(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Multi-threaded compression utility with support for bzip2
+       compressed file format"""
+
+    homepage = "http://lbzip2.org/"
+    url      = "http://archive.lbzip2.org/lbzip2-2.5.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2.5', sha256='46c75ee93cc95eedc6005625442b2b8e59a2bef3ba80987d0491f055185650e9')