diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/casacore/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/casacore/package.py
index 8ba7c9a80c..24bb8defb4 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/casacore/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/casacore/package.py
@@ -12,26 +12,41 @@ class Casacore(CMakePackage):
     homepage = "https://github.com/casacore/casacore"
     url      = "https://github.com/casacore/casacore/archive/v2.4.1.tar.gz"
 
+    maintainers = ['mpokorny']
+
+    version('3.2.0', sha256='ae5d3786cb6dfdd7ebc5eecc0c724ff02bbf6929720bc23be43a027978e79a5f')
+    version('3.1.2', sha256='ac94f4246412eb45d503f1019cabe2bb04e3861e1f3254b832d9b1164ea5f281')
+    version('3.1.1', sha256='85d2b17d856592fb206b17e0a344a29330650a4269c80b87f8abb3eaf3dadad4')
+    version('3.1.0', sha256='a6adf2d77ad0d6f32995b1e297fd88d31ded9c3e0bb8f28966d7b35a969f7897')
+    version('3.0.0', sha256='6f0e68fd77b5c96299f7583a03a53a90980ec347bff9dfb4c0abb0e2933e6bcb')
     version('2.4.1', sha256='58eccc875053b2c6fe44fe53b6463030ef169597ec29926936f18d27b5087d63')
 
     variant('openmp', default=False, description='Build OpenMP support')
     variant('shared', default=True, description='Build shared libraries')
-    variant('sofa', default=False, description='Build SOFA support')
+    # see note below about the reason for disabling the "sofa" variant
+    # variant('sofa', default=False, description='Build SOFA support')
     variant('fftw', default=False, description='Build FFTW3 support')
     variant('hdf5', default=False, description='Build HDF5 support')
     variant('python', default=False, description='Build python support')
-    variant('ncurses', default=False, description='Build ncurses support')
 
     depends_on('flex', type='build')
     depends_on('bison', type='build')
     depends_on('blas')
     depends_on('lapack')
     depends_on('cfitsio@3.181:')
-    depends_on('wcslib@4.20:')
+    depends_on('wcslib@4.20:+cfitsio')
     depends_on('fftw~mpi@3.0.0:', when='+fftw')
-    depends_on('sofa-c', when='+sofa')
+    # SOFA dependency suffers the same problem in CMakeLists.txt as readline;
+    # however, as SOFA is far less likely to be present on most systems, and as
+    # it's an unneeded dependency except for testing, for now we leave out the
+    # option for a dependency on SOFA.
+    # depends_on('sofa-c', when='+sofa')
     depends_on('hdf5', when='+hdf5')
-    depends_on('ncurses', when='+ncurses')
+    # Force dependency on readline. Although the presence of readline is tested
+    # in CMakeLists.txt, and casacore can be built without it, there's no way
+    # to control that dependency at build time; since many systems come with
+    # readline, it's better to explicitly depend on it here always.
+    depends_on('readline')
     depends_on('python@2.6:', when='+python')
     depends_on('boost+python', when='+python')
     depends_on('py-numpy', when='+python')