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+%global realname parsedatetime
+%global py3_prefix python%{python3_pkgversion}
+
+
+%bcond_without tests
+
+Name:           python-%{realname}
+Version:        2.5
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Parse human-readable date/time strings in Python
+
+License:        ASL 2.0
+URL:            https://github.com/bear/%{realname}
+Source0:        https://github.com/bear/%{realname}/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{realname}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_prefix}-devel
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_prefix}-setuptools
+%if %{with tests}
+BuildRequires:  %{py3_prefix}-pytest
+%endif
+
+%global _description\
+parsedatetime is a python module that can parse human-readable date/time\
+strings.
+
+%description %_description
+
+%package -n     %{py3_prefix}-%{realname}
+Summary:        Parse human-readable date/time strings in Python
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide %{py3_prefix}-%{realname}}
+
+
+%description -n %{py3_prefix}-%{realname}
+parsedatetime is a python module that can parse human-readable date/time
+strings.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n %{realname}-%{version}
+
+
+%build
+%py3_build
+
+
+%install
+%py3_install
+# It makes no sense to ship all these tests in the package
+# just use them during the build
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib}/%{realname}/tests
+
+%check
+%if %{with tests}
+py.test-3 -x tests/*.py
+%endif
+
+%files -n %{py3_prefix}-%{realname}
+%license LICENSE.txt
+%doc AUTHORS.txt CHANGES.txt README.rst
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{realname}
+%{python3_sitelib}/%{realname}*.egg-info
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Dec 02 2019 Felix Schwarz <fschwarz@fedoraproject.org> 2.5-1
+- initial package for EPEL 8
+
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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+SHA512 (parsedatetime-2.5.tar.gz) = f729c32a3e5ee94fe39322be4772dffacb0608753e106e64d79818a6be3febc36f37e0eeac73190f1510f5e88aa0755eb0fb85fab19aa53f4643619907b245bf