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+Name:           libaec
+Version:        1.0.2
+Release:        3%{?dist}
+Summary:        Adaptive Entropy Coding library
+License:        BSD
+Url:            https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec
+Source:         https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=v%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires:  %{?fedora:cmake >= 3.1}%{?rhel:cmake3 >= 3.1}
+
+%description
+Libaec provides fast loss-less compression of 1 up to 32 bit wide
+signed or unsigned integers (samples). The library achieves best
+results for low entropy data as often encountered in space imaging
+instrument data or numerical model output from weather or climate
+simulations. While floating point representations are not directly
+supported, they can also be efficiently coded by grouping exponents
+and mantissa.
+
+Libaec implements Golomb Rice coding as defined in the Space Data
+System Standard documents 121.0-B-2 and 120.0-G-2.
+
+Libaec includes a free drop-in replacement for the SZIP
+library (http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP).
+
+%package devel
+Summary:        Devel package for libaec (Adaptive Entropy Coding library)
+Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+Devel files for libaec (Adaptive Entropy Coding library).
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -T -a 0 -c
+mv %{name}-v%{version}-*/* .
+
+%build
+mkdir build
+pushd build
+%{?fedora:%{cmake}}%{?rhel:%{cmake3}} ..
+%make_build
+popd
+
+%install
+%make_install -C build
+
+%check
+#test data missing in tarball for check_szcomp and sampledata.sh
+make -C build test ARGS="-E \(check_szcomp\|sampledata.sh\)"
+
+%ldconfig_scriptlets
+
+%files
+%doc README.md README.SZIP CHANGELOG.md
+%license Copyright.txt doc/patent.txt
+%{_bindir}/aec
+%{_libdir}/lib*.so.*
+%{_mandir}/man1/aec.*
+
+%files devel
+%{_includedir}/*.h
+%{_libdir}/lib*.so
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.2-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Feb 03 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.2-2
+- Switch to %%ldconfig_scriptlets
+
+* Tue Oct 24 2017 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.0.2-1
+- Version bump to 1.0.2 (#1504372)
+
+* Sun Aug 13 2017  Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org>- 1.0.1-4
+- Tweaks for EPEL7
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.1-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.1-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Jul 17 2017 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.0.1-1
+- version bump to 1.0.1 - bug #1471766
+
+* Wed Jun 21 2017 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.0.0-2
+- comments from review #1462443
+
+* Sat Jun 17 2017 Christoph Junghans <junghans@votca.org> - 1.0.0-1
+- initial import