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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 PySphinxcontribJsmath(PythonPackage):
+    """A sphinx extension which renders display math in HTML via JavaScript."""
+
+    homepage = "http://sphinx-doc.org/"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/s/sphinxcontrib-jsmath/sphinxcontrib-jsmath-1.0.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.0.1', sha256='a9925e4a4587247ed2191a22df5f6970656cb8ca2bd6284309578f2153e0c4b8')
+
+    depends_on('python@3.5:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+
+    def test(self):
+        # Requires sphinx, creating a circular dependency
+        pass