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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)
+# See the Spack documentation for more information on packaging.
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Repeatscout(MakefilePackage):
+    """RepeatScout - De Novo Repeat Finder, Price A.L., Jones N.C. and Pevzner
+       P.A."""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.repeatmasker.org/RepeatModeler/"
+    url      = "http://www.repeatmasker.org/RepeatScout-1.0.5.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.0.5', sha256='bda6f782382f2b7dcb6a004b7da586d5046b3c12429b158e24787be62de6199c')
+
+    depends_on('perl', type='run')
+    depends_on('trf', type='run')
+    depends_on('nseg', type='run')
+
+    def edit(self, spec, prefix):
+        filter_file('^INSTDIR.*$', 'INSTDIR=%s' % prefix.bin, 'Makefile')