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+# vim ft=yaml
+# travis-ci.org definition for Fail2Ban build (based on nipy configuration)
+#
+# We pretend to be erlang because we need can't use the python support in
+# travis-ci; it uses virtualenvs, they do not have numpy, scipy, matplotlib,
+# and it is impractical to build them
+language: erlang
+env:
+    - PYTHON=python PYSUF=''
+    # - PYTHON=python3 PYSUF=3 : python3-numpy not currently available
+install:
+    - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-pyinotify
+    - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-gamin
+script:
+    - ./fail2ban-testcases