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diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
index 1cb0d208aa..4ce481ad19 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2017 Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Joshua Sierles, Nextjournal <joshua@nextjournal.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2018 Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -2151,3 +2152,25 @@ with @code{deflate} but offers more dense compression.
The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.")
(license license:expat)))
+
+(define-public ucl
+ (package
+ (name "ucl")
+ (version "1.03")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/"
+ name "/download/" name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0j036lkwsxvm15gr29n8wn07cqq79dswjs9k54939ms5zngjjrdq"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (home-page "http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl/")
+ (synopsis "Portable lossless data compression library")
+ (description "UCL implements a number of compression algorithms that
+achieve an excellent compression ratio while allowing fast decompression.
+Decompression requires no additional memory.
+
+Compared to LZO, the UCL algorithms achieve a better compression ratio but
+decompression is a little bit slower.")
+ (license license:gpl2+)))