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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 GsettingsDesktopSchemas(MesonPackage):
+    """gsettings-desktop-schemas contains a collection of GSettings schemas
+    for settings shared by various components of a desktop."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/archive/3.38.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('3.38.0',  sha256='b808bd285ac7176f2e9e3a8763c3913121ab9f109d2988c70e3f1f8e742a630d')
+    version('3.37.92', sha256='5f5dd0421ed2f3746674b8bb6e0c652784915133c7f2d133339bf5e4140d8d1d')
+    version('3.37.2',  sha256='1dacdfeecfc57468da7c598a01b635f82ecd088e1d78d5aa840e47256026654d')
+
+    depends_on('glib')
+    depends_on('gobject-introspection', type='build')
+    depends_on('gettext', type='build')