diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/liblas/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/liblas/package.py
index f1a3bff59d..d5284d8b75 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/liblas/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/liblas/package.py
@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ class Liblas(CMakePackage):
     variant('geotiff', default=True,  description='Build with GeoTIFF for enhanced performance')
     variant('laszip',  default=False, description='Build with LasZip')
 
-    depends_on('libgeotiff')
-    depends_on('boost@:1.69.0')
-    depends_on('laszip', when='+laszip')
-    depends_on('gdal', when='+gdal')
+    depends_on('cmake@2.6:', type='build')
+    depends_on('libgeotiff@1.3:', when='+geotiff')
+    depends_on('boost@1.42:1.72+program_options+thread+system+iostreams+filesystem')
+    depends_on('laszip@2.0.1:', when='+laszip')
+    depends_on('gdal@1.7:', when='+gdal')
 
     def cmake_args(self):
         args = []
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-liblas/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-liblas/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dcd48b6032
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-liblas/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Copyright 2013-2022 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 PyLiblas(PythonPackage):
+    """libLAS is a C/C++ library for reading and writing the very common
+    LAS LiDAR format.
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://liblas.org/"
+    pypi     = "libLAS/libLAS-1.8.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.8.1', sha256='4d517670912989a0c7a33bb057167747e1013db6abdaa372f0775343ff0d1e16')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('liblas')
+
+    def setup_build_environment(self, env):
+        env_var = 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'
+        if self.spec.satisfies('platform=darwin'):
+            env_var = 'DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH'
+        env.prepend_path(env_var, self.spec['liblas'].libs.directories[0])
+
+    setup_run_environment = setup_build_environment