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+name: pyethapp
+version: master
+summary: python based client implementing the Ethereum cryptoeconomic state machine
+description: |
+  Ethereum as a platform is focussed on enabling people to build new ideas
+  using blockchain technology.
+
+  The python implementation aims to provide an easily hackable and extendable
+  codebase.
+
+grade: devel # must be 'stable' to release into candidate/stable channels
+confinement: strict
+
+apps:
+  pyethapp:
+    command: pyethapp
+    plugs: [network, network-bind]
+
+parts:
+  pyethapp:
+    source: .
+    plugin: python
+    python-version: python2
+    build-packages: [libssl-dev]
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