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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 PyRecommonmark(PythonPackage):
+    """A docutils-compatibility bridge to CommonMark.
+
+    This allows you to write CommonMark inside of Docutils & Sphinx projects.
+
+    Documentation is available on Read the Docs:
+    http://recommonmark.readthedocs.org"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/readthedocs/recommonmark"
+    url      = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f5/71/046160d730f664662d65b3f8b399b519ad378ffa4369ff3b6060cf1318d7/recommonmark-0.6.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.6.0', sha256='29cd4faeb6c5268c633634f2d69aef9431e0f4d347f90659fd0aab20e541efeb')
+
+    depends_on('py-commonmark@0.8.1:')
+    depends_on('py-docutils@011:')
+    depends_on('py-sphinx@1.3.1:')