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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 PyBoto(PythonPackage):
+    """Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to
+    Amazon Web Services."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/boto/boto"
+    url      = "https://github.com/boto/boto/archive/2.49.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2.49.0', sha256='3dbefd4f4542f85a323d4f54601f31ed4d362fc87945245f32e4a85029513314')
+
+    depends_on('python@2.6:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')