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+# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class Yq(GoPackage):
+    """yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor.
+    This is different from the py-yq package that is a wrapper around jq."""
+
+    homepage = "https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq"
+    url = "https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/archive/refs/tags/v4.43.1.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers("teaguesterling")
+
+    license("MIT", checked_by="teaguesterling")
+
+    version("4.43.1", sha256="e5581d28bae2bcdf70501dfd251233c592eb3e39a210956ee74965b784435d63")
+    version("4.41.1", sha256="25d61e72887f57510f88d1a30d515c7e2d79e7c6dce5c96aea7c069fcbc089e7")
+    version("4.40.7", sha256="c38024d40ee37d26caba1824965d9ea1d65468f48b2bacd45647ff4f547fa59f")
+    version("4.35.2", sha256="8b17d710c56f764e9beff06d7a7b1c77d87c4ba4219ce4ce67e7ee29670f4f13")