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authorNikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>2013-01-18 07:27:06 +0000
committerNikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>2013-01-19 01:01:27 +0000
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gnu: ddrescue: Fix 'synopsis' and 'description'.
* gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm (ddrescue): Fix 'synopsis' and 'description'.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm b/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm
index e9c7856af3..0d5533d423 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2012 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -37,24 +37,21 @@
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(home-page
"http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html")
- (synopsis "GNU ddrescue, a data recovery tool")
+ (synopsis "GNU Ddrescue, a data recovery tool")
(description
- "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one
-file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to
+ "GNU Ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one
+file or block device (e.g., hard disk, CD-ROM) to another, trying hard to
rescue data in case of read errors.
-The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't
+The basic operation of Ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't
have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in
reverse mode, etc.
-If you use the logfile feature of ddrescue, the data is rescued very
-efficiently (only the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt
+If you use the logfile feature of Ddrescue, the data is rescued very
+efficiently (only the needed blocks are read). Also, you can interrupt
the rescue at any time and resume it later at the same point.
Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged copies of
-a file, cdrom, etc, and run ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with
-the same output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free
-file. This is so because the probability of having damaged areas at the
-same places on different input files is very low. Using the logfile,
-only the needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies.")
+a file and run Ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with the same
+output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file.")
(license gpl3+)))