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diff --git a/gnu/packages/gdb.scm b/gnu/packages/gdb.scm index 0afe5e6f6a..09e00aaeb1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gdb.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gdb.scm @@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/") (synopsis "The GNU debugger") (description - "GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going -on `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another -program was doing at the moment it crashed.") + "GDB is the GNU debugger. With it, you can monitor what a program is +doing while it runs or what it was doing just before a crash. It allows you +to specify the runtime conditions, to define breakpoints, and to change how +the program is running to try to fix bugs. It can be used to debug programs +written in C, C++, Ada, Objective-C, Pascal and more.") (license gpl3+))) |