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+# Copyright 2013-2018 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 Gpgme(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """GPGME is the standard library to access GnuPG
+       functions from programming languages."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.gnupg.org/software/gpgme/index.html"
+    url      = "https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gpgme/gpgme-1.12.0.tar.bz2"
+
+    version('1.12.0', sha256='b4dc951c3743a60e2e120a77892e9e864fb936b2e58e7c77e8581f4d050e8cd8')
+
+    depends_on('libgpg-error', type='build')
+    depends_on('libassuan', type='build')