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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/directives.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/directives.py b/lib/spack/spack/directives.py
index fa04641f38..c7491861eb 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/directives.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/directives.py
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ def provides(*specs, **kwargs):
for string in specs:
for provided_spec in spack.spec.parse(string):
if pkg.name == provided_spec.name:
- raise CircularReferenceError("Package '%s' cannot provide itself.")
+ raise CircularReferenceError("Package '%s' cannot provide itself." % pkg.name)
if provided_spec not in pkg.provided:
pkg.provided[provided_spec] = set()