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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 Acl(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Commands for Manipulating POSIX Access Control Lists."""
+
+    homepage = "https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl"
+    url      = "http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/acl.git/snapshot/acl-2.2.53.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2.2.53', sha256='9e905397ac10d06768c63edd0579c34b8431555f2ea8e8f2cee337b31f856805')
+    version('2.2.52', sha256='f3f31d2229c903184ff877aa0ee658b87ec20fec8aebb51e65eaa68d7b24e629')
+    version('2.2.51', sha256='31a43d96a274a39bfcb805fb903d45840515344884d224cef166b482693a9f48')
+    version('2.2.50', sha256='39e21d623a9f0da8c042cde346c01871b498d51400e92c2ab1490d5ffd724401')
+    version('2.2.49', sha256='c6e01460cac4e47673dd60a7f57b970b49f6998bb564eff141cca129aa8940d1')
+    version('2.2.48', sha256='877eaeccc1500baec58391935b46ac7dfc5ffd8c54fbc0385ccd8b2b18ac3fa6')
+
+    depends_on('m4',       type='build')
+    depends_on('autoconf', type='build')
+    depends_on('automake', type='build')
+    depends_on('libtool',  type='build')
+    depends_on('attr')
+
+    def autoreconf(self, spec, prefix):
+        bash = which('bash')
+        bash('./autogen.sh')