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+Source: pysam
+Section: science
+Priority: extra
+Maintainer: Diane Trout <diane@caltech.edu>
+Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7), python-all-dev (>= 2.3.5-11), python-central (>= 0.5.6), python-setuptools (>= 0.6b3), python-pyrex (>= 0.9.8), zlib1g-dev (>= 1.2.3)
+Standards-Version: 3.8.4
+XS-Python-Version: >=2.5, <<2.7
+Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/pysam/
+
+Package: python-pysam
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
+Description: python module for reading and manipulating Samfiles
+ Pysam is a python module for reading and manipulating Samfiles.
+ It's a lightweight wrapper of the samtools C-API.