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+# Copyright 2013-2021 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 Libmpdclient(MesonPackage):
+    """Libmpdclient is a C library which implements the Music Player
+    Daemon protocol."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.musicpd.org/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/libmpdclient/archive/v2.19.tar.gz"
+
+    version('2.19', sha256='12b566b75c3b6789ff8fc94698497d1f3fbaf0cbf9fa6c3a1e3906ef0d2bcbbb')
+    version('2.18', sha256='9b97d00022f2053c06d87bff40b319dfab930ee2b5fa9b8dec208a2911ca3efc')
+    version('2.17', sha256='06eb4b67c63f64d647e97257ff5f8506bf9c2a26b314bf5d0dd5944995b59fc9')
+    version('2.16', sha256='6651898489b69d2f2f8e94f0ed6ddcc0dd2cdbcf99b02131b790551922558d6c')
+    version('2.15', sha256='dd3d36801e397bf43719a291289ff610af71859c08f3196a506e4b1af43c290c')