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If you want to report a build error for some package, or a bug in core please use the following template as a guideline:

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Summary

### Expected Result

What you expected

### Actual Result

What happened instead

### Steps to reproduce the issue

```console
$ spack <command1> <spec>
$ spack <command2> <spec>
...
```

### Information on your system

This includes:

 1. which platform you are using
 2. any relevant configuration detail (custom `packages.yaml` or `modules.yaml`, etc.)

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