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+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "1.1.29";
+  pname = "libpaper";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://debian/pool/main/libp/libpaper/libpaper_${version}.tar.gz";
+    hash = "sha256-JjMOIemjEkZY1RX9hQsM3lRv9C2JsllqUmTF8Wd/BUc=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
+
+  # The configure script of libpaper is buggy: it uses AC_SUBST on a headerfile
+  # to compile sysconfdir into the library. Autoconf however defines sysconfdir
+  # as "${prefix}/etc", which is not expanded by AC_SUBST so libpaper will look
+  # for config files in (literally, without expansion) '${prefix}/etc'. Manually
+  # setting sysconfdir fixes this issue.
+  preConfigure = ''
+    configureFlagsArray+=(
+      "--sysconfdir=$out/etc"
+    )
+  '';
+
+  # Set the default paper to letter (this is what libpaper uses as default as well,
+  # if you call getdefaultpapername()).
+  # The user can still override this with the PAPERCONF environment variable.
+  postInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/etc
+    echo letter > $out/etc/papersize
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Library for handling paper characteristics";
+    homepage = "http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+  };
+}