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+# Maintainer: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
+# Contributor: Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - python2 variant dropped upstream, still a dependency for packages
+
+pkgname=python2-msgpack
+pkgver=0.6.2
+pkgrel=4
+
+url='https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python'
+arch=('x86_64')
+license=('Apache')
+
+makedepends=('cython2' 'python2-setuptools')
+checkdepends=('python2-pytest' 'python2-six')
+
+source=(msgpack-python-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz)
+
+md5sums=('e751675f8e18625bf1d2ec391dd9e8fd')
+
+build() {
+  cd msgpack-python-$pkgver
+  python2 setup.py build --build-lib=build/python2
+  find build/python2 -type f -exec \
+    sed -i '1s,^#! \?/usr/bin/\(env \|\)python$,#!/usr/bin/python2,' {} \;
+}
+
+check() {
+  cd msgpack-python-$pkgver
+  PYTHONPATH=$PWD/build/python2 py.test2 test
+}
+
+package() {
+  pkgdesc='MessagePack serializer implementation for Python2'
+  depends=('python2')
+
+  cd msgpack-python-$pkgver
+  python2 setup.py build --build-lib=build/python2 \
+                   install --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
+}
+
+# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: