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+/colander-0.9.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/python-colander.spec b/python-colander.spec
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+%if 0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 6
+#%%global with_python3 1
+
+# Manually turn this off.  We should be good-to-go with python3 support here
+# once python3-translationstring makes it into rawhide.
+# There is nothing upstream blocking us on that.. it just requires some .spec
+# work.
+%global with_python3 0
+
+%endif
+
+%global modname colander
+
+Name:               python-colander
+Version:            0.9.9
+Release:            2%{?dist}
+Summary:            A simple schema-based serialization and deserialization library
+
+Group:              Development/Libraries
+License:            BSD
+URL:                http://pypi.python.org/pypi/colander
+Source0:            http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/%{modname}/%{modname}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildArch:          noarch
+
+
+BuildRequires:      python2-devel
+BuildRequires:      python-setuptools
+
+BuildRequires:      python-translationstring
+BuildRequires:      python-nose
+BuildRequires:      python-coverage
+
+Requires:           python-translationstring
+
+%if 0%{?with_python3}
+BuildRequires:      python3-devel
+BuildRequires:      python3-setuptools
+
+BuildRequires:      python3-translationstring
+BuildRequires:      python3-nose
+BuildRequires:      python3-coverage
+
+Requires:           python3-translationstring
+%endif
+
+%description
+An extensible package which can be used to:
+
+- deserialize and validate a data structure composed of strings, mappings,
+  and lists.
+- serialize an arbitrary data structure to a data structure composed of
+  strings, mappings, and lists.
+
+It runs on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2.
+
+Please see http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/ for
+further documentation.
+
+%if 0%{?with_python3}
+%package -n python3-colander
+Summary:            A simple schema-based serialization and deserialization library
+Group:              Development/Libraries
+
+%description -n python3-colander
+An extensible package which can be used to:
+
+- deserialize and validate a data structure composed of strings, mappings,
+  and lists.
+- serialize an arbitrary data structure to a data structure composed of
+  strings, mappings, and lists.
+
+It runs on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2.
+
+Please see http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/ for
+further documentation.
+
+%endif
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{modname}-%{version}
+
+# The presence of this file creates an rpmlint error.  Remove it.
+rm docs/.gitignore
+rm -rf docs/.static
+
+# Remove bundled egg-info in case it exists
+rm -rf %{modname}.egg-info
+%if 0%{?with_python3}
+rm -rf %{py3dir}
+cp -a . %{py3dir}
+%endif
+
+%build
+%{__python} setup.py build
+%if 0%{?with_python3}
+pushd %{py3dir}
+%{__python3} setup.py build
+popd
+%endif
+
+%install
+%if 0%{?with_python3}
+pushd %{py3dir}
+%{__python3} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root=%{buildroot}
+popd
+%endif
+%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root=%{buildroot}
+
+%check
+%{__python} setup.py test
+%if 0%{?with_python3}
+pushd %{py3dir}
+%{__python3} setup.py test
+popd
+%endif
+
+%files
+%doc README.txt LICENSE.txt COPYRIGHT.txt CONTRIBUTORS.txt CHANGES.txt docs
+%{python_sitelib}/%{modname}/
+%{python_sitelib}/%{modname}-%{version}*
+
+%if 0%{?with_python3}
+%files -n python3-%{modname}
+%doc README.txt LICENSE.txt COPYRIGHT.txt CONTRIBUTORS.txt CHANGES.txt docs
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{modname}/
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{modname}-%{version}-*
+%endif
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Dec 07 2012 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 0.9.9-2
+- Remove the hidden static folder in the docs directory at prep time.
+
+* Fri Dec 07 2012 Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com> - 0.9.9-1
+- Initial packaging for Fedora
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8725f67c0097aa2f41338cec658d87be  colander-0.9.9.tar.gz