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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 PyPauvr(PythonPackage):
+    """pauvr: a plotting package designed for nanopore and PacBio long reads"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/conchoecia/pauvre"
+    url      = "https://github.com/conchoecia/pauvre/archive/0.1.86.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.1.86', sha256='aa0b3653e7c12fb50a0907ce088d85b8e1b52c97f40e4d2e6e6b7525a681aa1a')
+
+    depends_on('python@3:',        type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-matplotlib',    type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-biopython',     type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pandas',        type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pillow',        type=('build', 'run'))