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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 Bitlbee(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """An IRC to other chat networks gateway."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.bitlbee.org/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee/archive/3.5.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('3.6-1', sha256='81c6357fe08a8941221472e3790e2b351e3a8a41f9af0cf35395fdadbc8ac6cb')
+    version('3.6',   sha256='6ec3a1054eaa98eaaabe6159cb4912cfd6286f71adcfa970419b273b38fdfe0c')
+    version('3.5-2', sha256='cdcf3ed829d1905b73687b6aa189bbfaf9194f886d9fc7156646827dc0384fdb')
+
+    depends_on('glib')
+    depends_on('gnutls')
+    depends_on('libgcrypt')