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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)
+
+
+class PyRosinstall(PythonPackage):
+    """The installer for ROS."""
+
+    homepage = "https://wiki.ros.org/rosinstall"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/r/rosinstall/rosinstall-0.7.8.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.7.8', sha256='2ba808bf8bac2cc3f13af9745184b9714c1426e11d09eb96468611b2ad47ed40')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-vcstools@0.1.38:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pyyaml', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-rosdistro@0.3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-catkin-pkg', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-wstool@0.1.12:', type=('build', 'run'))