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+# Copyright 2013-2019 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 Libsecret(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """libsecret is a library for storing and retrieving passwords and other
+    secrets. It communicates with the "Secret Service" using D-Bus.
+    gnome-keyring and ksecretservice are both implementations of a Secret
+    Service.
+
+    libsecret replaces libgnome-keyring
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret"
+    url      = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsecret/0.18/libsecret-0.18.8.tar.xz"
+
+    version('0.18.8', sha256='3bfa889d260e0dbabcf5b9967f2aae12edcd2ddc9adc365de7a5cc840c311d15')
+
+    variant('gcrypt', default=True, description='Build with libgcrypt')
+    variant('gobj', default=True, description='Build with gobject-introspection')
+    # Optional Vala support is not implemented yet
+    # variant('vala', default=False, descript='Build with Vala support')
+
+    # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsecret/blob/master/meson.build
+    depends_on('glib@2.44:')
+    depends_on('libgcrypt@1.2.2:', when='+gcrypt')
+    depends_on('gobject-introspection', when='+gobj')
+    # depends_on('vala', when='+vala') # Package doesn't exist yet
+
+    def url_for_version(self, version):
+        url = 'http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsecret'
+        return url + '/%s/libsecret-%s.tar.xz' % (version.up_to(2), version)
+
+    # http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/gnome/libsecret.html
+    def configure_args(self):
+        args = []
+        args.append('--disable-static')
+        args.append('--disable-manpages')
+        if '+gcrypt' not in self.spec:
+            args.append('--disable-gcrypt')
+        return args