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+# Copyright 2013-2018 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 six.moves import builtins
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Raiser(Package):
+    """A package that can raise a built-in exception
+    of any kind with any message
+    """
+
+    homepage = "http://www.example.com"
+    url = "http://www.example.com/a-1.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.0', '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef')
+    version('2.0', '2.0_a_hash')
+
+    variant(
+        'exc_type',
+        values=lambda x: isinstance(x, str),
+        default='RuntimeError',
+        description='type of the exception to be raised',
+        multi=False
+    )
+
+    variant(
+        'msg',
+        values=lambda x: isinstance(x, str),
+        default='Unknown Exception',
+        description='message that will be tied to the exception',
+        multi=False
+    )
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        print('Raiser will raise ')
+        exc_typename = self.spec.variants['exc_type'].value
+        exc_type = getattr(builtins, exc_typename)
+        msg = self.spec.variants['msg'].value
+        raise exc_type(msg)