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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages')
40 files changed, 88 insertions, 89 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/audio.scm b/gnu/packages/audio.scm index c6734a35f3..f26b3eceae 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/audio.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/audio.scm @@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ tools (analyzer, mono/stereo tools, crossovers).") `(("lv2" ,lv2))) ;; home-page of the original LADSPA version: http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html (home-page "https://github.com/moddevices/caps-lv2") - (synopsis "LV2 port of the CAPS audio plugin colection") + (synopsis "LV2 port of the CAPS audio plugin collection") (description "LV2 port of CAPS, a collection of audio plugins comprising basic virtual guitar amplification and a small range of classic effects, signal processors and diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm b/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm index 9d5c69e45e..d655253cf1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm @@ -2736,7 +2736,7 @@ gene and isoform level using RNA-seq data") (home-page "https://bioconductor.org/packages/karyoploteR/") (synopsis "Plot customizable linear genomes displaying arbitrary data") (description "This package creates karyotype plots of arbitrary genomes and -offers a complete set of functions to plot arbitrary data on them. It mimicks +offers a complete set of functions to plot arbitrary data on them. It mimics many R base graphics functions coupling them with a coordinate change function automatically mapping the chromosome and data coordinates into the plot coordinates.") @@ -3674,7 +3674,7 @@ sets of GO terms, gene products and gene clusters.") (description "Genome wide studies of translational control is emerging as a tool to study various biological conditions. The output from such analysis is both -the mRNA level (e.g. cytosolic mRNA level) and the levl of mRNA actively +the mRNA level (e.g. cytosolic mRNA level) and the level of mRNA actively involved in translation (the actively translating mRNA level) for each mRNA. The standard analysis of such data strives towards identifying differential translational between two or more sample classes - i.e. differences in @@ -4843,7 +4843,7 @@ a more complex way than the simple GC content. Instead, the base types (A, T, G or C) at each position along the probe determine the affinity of each probe. The parameters of the position-specific base contributions to the probe affinity is estimated in an NSB experiment in which only NSB but no -gene-specific bidning is expected.") +gene-specific binding is expected.") ;; Any version of the LGPL (license license:lgpl2.1+))) @@ -7478,7 +7478,7 @@ networks and estimated fluxes can be visualized with hypergraphs.") safety and convenience features to the @code{filebacked.big.matrix} class from the @code{bigmemory} package. @code{BigMatrix} protects against segfaults by monitoring and gracefully restoring the connection to on-disk data and it also -protects against accidental data modification with a filesystem-based +protects against accidental data modification with a file-system-based permissions system. Utilities are provided for using @code{BigMatrix}-derived classes as @code{assayData} matrices within the @code{Biobase} package's @code{eSet} family of classes. @code{BigMatrix} provides some optimizations diff --git a/gnu/packages/cran.scm b/gnu/packages/cran.scm index 684244456b..50ce111123 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/cran.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/cran.scm @@ -3401,7 +3401,7 @@ Optimization problems by using the simplex algorithm.") ("r-rcpp" ,r-rcpp) ("r-rcppprogress" ,r-rcppprogress))) (home-page "http://geometry.r-forge.r-project.org/") - (synopsis "Mesh generation and surface tesselation") + (synopsis "Mesh generator and surface tessellator") (description "This package makes the qhull library available in R, in a similar manner as in Octave. Qhull computes convex hulls, Delaunay triangulations, halfspace @@ -3743,7 +3743,7 @@ color labels, layout, etc.") (description "This package implements an approximate string matching version of R's native @code{match} function. It can calculate various string distances based -on edits (Damerau-Levenshtein, Hamming, Levenshtein, optimal sting alignment), +on edits (Damerau-Levenshtein, Hamming, Levenshtein, optimal string alignment), qgrams (q- gram, cosine, jaccard distance) or heuristic metrics (Jaro, Jaro-Winkler). An implementation of soundex is provided as well. Distances can be computed between character vectors while taking proper care of encoding @@ -16497,7 +16497,7 @@ guaranteeing well-connected communities.\" <arXiv:1810.08473>.") "The @code{ggplot2} package provides a strong API for sequentially building up a plot, but does not concern itself with composition of multiple plots. Patchwork is a package that expands the API to allow for arbitrarily -complex composition of plots by providing mathmatical operators for combining +complex composition of plots by providing mathematical operators for combining multiple plots.") (license license:expat))) @@ -19616,7 +19616,7 @@ on distances rather than on unit x variables.") "This package provides tools for depth functions methodology applied to multivariate analysis. Besides allowing calculation of depth values and depth-based location estimators, the package includes functions or drawing -contour plots and perspective plots of depth functions. Euclidian and +contour plots and perspective plots of depth functions. Euclidean and spherical depths are supported.") (license license:gpl2))) @@ -22103,7 +22103,7 @@ general, via different versions of bridge sampling.") (description "This package provides different approaches for selecting the threshold in generalized Pareto distributions. Most of them are based on minimizing the -AMSE-criterion or atleast by reducing the bias of the assumed GPD-model. +AMSE-criterion or at least by reducing the bias of the assumed GPD-model. Others are heuristically motivated by searching for stable sample paths, i.e. a nearly constant region of the tail index estimator with respect to k, which is the number of data in the tail. The third class is motivated by graphical diff --git a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm index ba02406848..96b47394a6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm @@ -984,9 +984,9 @@ Mac, and Unix.") #:cargo-development-inputs (("rust-docmatic" ,rust-docmatic-0.1)))) (home-page "https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_fs") - (synopsis "Filesystem fixtures and assertions for testing") + (synopsis "File system fixtures and assertions for testing") (description - "Filesystem fixtures and assertions for testing.") + "File system fixtures and assertions for testing.") (license (list license:expat license:asl2.0)))) (define-public rust-assert-matches-1.3 @@ -1977,7 +1977,7 @@ BLAKE2bp hash functions.") (home-page "https://github.com/blas-lapack-rs/blas-sys") (synopsis "Bindings to BLAS (Fortran)") (description - "Ths package provides bindings to BLAS (Fortran).") + "This package provides bindings to BLAS (Fortran).") (license (list license:asl2.0 license:expat)))) @@ -7945,7 +7945,7 @@ duplication.") (build-system cargo-build-system) (arguments '(#:skip-build? #t)) (home-page "https://github.com/webdesus/fs_extra") - (synopsis "Extra filesystem methods") + (synopsis "Extra file system methods") (description "Expanding opportunities standard library @code{std::fs} and @code{std::io}. Recursively copy folders with recept information about process and much more.") @@ -15245,9 +15245,9 @@ with all line endings.") #:cargo-development-inputs (("rust-tempfile" ,rust-tempfile-3)))) (home-page "https://github.com/passcod/notify") - (synopsis "Cross-platform filesystem notification library") + (synopsis "Cross-platform file system notification library") (description - "Cross-platform filesystem notification library.") + "Cross-platform file system notification library.") (license license:cc0))) (define-public rust-num-0.2 @@ -27178,8 +27178,8 @@ the current thread.") ("rust-tokio-codec" ,rust-tokio-codec-0.1) ("rust-tokio-io" ,rust-tokio-io-0.1)))) (home-page "https://tokio.rs") - (synopsis "Filesystem API for Tokio") - (description "Filesystem API for Tokio.") + (synopsis "File system API for Tokio") + (description "File system API for Tokio.") (license license:expat))) ;; Cyclic dependencies with tokio and tokio-current-thread @@ -30508,7 +30508,7 @@ color in a Windows console.") #:cargo-development-inputs (("rust-tempfile" ,rust-tempfile-3)))) (home-page "https://github.com/Stebalien/xattr") - (synopsis "Unix extended filesystem attributes") + (synopsis "Unix extended file system attributes") (description "This package provide a small library for setting, getting, and listing extended attributes.") diff --git a/gnu/packages/databases.scm b/gnu/packages/databases.scm index a9798cbc33..c86297b293 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/databases.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/databases.scm @@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ module, and nothing else.") (synopsis "Parse and utilize MySQL's /etc/my.cnf and ~/.my.cnf files") (description "@code{MySQL::Config} emulates the @code{load_defaults} function from -libmysqlclient. It will fill an aray with long options, ready to be parsed by +libmysqlclient. It will fill an array with long options, ready to be parsed by @code{Getopt::Long}.") (license license:perl-license))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/disk.scm b/gnu/packages/disk.scm index 79e187e283..1e538ef60e 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/disk.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/disk.scm @@ -1038,6 +1038,6 @@ of choice for all light thinking Unix addicts!") (home-page "https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hddtemp/") (synopsis "Report the temperature of hard drives from S.M.A.R.T. information") (description "@command{hddtemp} is a small utility that gives you the -temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (for drives +temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. information (for drives that support this feature).") (license license:gpl2+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/django.scm b/gnu/packages/django.scm index 3fee18a102..43339720f2 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/django.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/django.scm @@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ Django projects, which allows association of a number of tags with any (synopsis "Toolkit for building Web APIs with Django") (description "The Django REST framework is for building Web APIs with Django. It -provides features like a web browseable API and authentication policies.") +provides features like a Web-browsable API and authentication policies.") (license license:bsd-2))) (define-public python-django-sekizai diff --git a/gnu/packages/documentation.scm b/gnu/packages/documentation.scm index 9c30fc832a..6532bb4704 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/documentation.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/documentation.scm @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ and to some extent D.") (description "DOC++ is a documentation system for C, C++, IDL, and Java. It can generate both TeX output for high-quality hardcopies or HTML output for online -brwosing. The documentation is extracted directly from the C/C++/IDL source +browsing. The documentation is extracted directly from the C/C++/IDL source or Java class files.") (license gpl2+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm index 43add530af..2957641c14 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm @@ -2800,7 +2800,7 @@ running Extempore process, and more.") (description "This package provides many, but not all of the editing primitives in the Kakoune editor. Unlike Evil mode for Vim, this is a very shallow emulation, which seeks to do as little work as possible, leveraging -Emacs native editing commmands and the work of other packages wherever +Emacs native editing commands and the work of other packages wherever possible.") (license license:expat)))) @@ -11105,7 +11105,7 @@ function to be used by other frontend programs.") (home-page "https://github.com/tumashu/pyim-basedict") (synopsis "Input method dictionary of pyim") (description "Pyim-basedict is the default pinyin input method dictionary, -containing words from the rime project.") +containing words from the Rime project.") (license license:gpl2+))) (define-public emacs-pyim @@ -12974,7 +12974,7 @@ buffer.") (description "@code{eless} provides a combination of Bash script and a minimal Emacs view-mode. -Feautures: +Features: @itemize @item Independent of a user’s Emacs config. @@ -24633,7 +24633,7 @@ displayed for sharing.") buffer on an active webserver to which the user has SSH access. It is similar in purpose to services such as Gist or Pastebin, but is much simpler since it assumes the user has access to a -publically-accessible HTTP server.") +publicly-accessible HTTP server.") (license license:gpl3+)))) (define-public emacs-company-reftex diff --git a/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm b/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm index b8612ac3b2..046deb67ab 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/file-systems.scm @@ -917,5 +917,5 @@ Dropbox API v2.") (synopsis "User-space file system for Dropbox") (description "@code{dbxfs} allows you to mount your Dropbox folder as if it were a -local filesystem using FUSE.") +local file system using FUSE.") (license license:gpl3+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/finance.scm b/gnu/packages/finance.scm index de3b687410..863914bd35 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/finance.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/finance.scm @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ amongst which a great number of VAT and other tax numbers, personal identity and company identification codes, international standard numbers (ISBN, IBAN, EAN, etc.) and various other formats. -The module also inclused implementations of the Verhoeff, +The module also includes implementations of the Verhoeff, Luhn and family of ISO/IEC 7064 check digit algorithms. ") (license license:lgpl2.1+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm b/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm index 96557b963c..94473991f7 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/fontutils.scm @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ work with most software requiring Type 1 fonts.") (inputs `(("brotli" ,google-brotli))) (synopsis "Libraries and tools for WOFF2 font format") - (description "WOFF2 provides libraires and tools to handle the Web Open + (description "WOFF2 provides libraries and tools to handle the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).") (home-page "https://w3c.github.io/woff/woff2/") (license license:expat))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm index d54a3bd1a9..b819cd104f 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/games.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm @@ -3903,7 +3903,7 @@ engine. When you start it you will be prompted to download a graphics set.") (home-page "http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/opengfx") (synopsis "Base graphics set for OpenTTD") (description - "The OpenGFX projects is an implementation of the OpenTTD base grahics + "The OpenGFX project is an implementation of the OpenTTD base graphics set that aims to ensure the best possible out-of-the-box experience. OpenGFX provides you with... diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome-xyz.scm index 75ba0f5636..7f3ae41d17 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gnome-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome-xyz.scm @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ some media players, are meant to run long-term in the background even after you close their window. These applications remain accessible by adding an icon to the GNOME Shell Legacy Tray. However, the Legacy Tray was removed in GNOME 3.26. TopIcons Redux brings those icons back into the top panel so that it's -easier to keep track of apps running in the backround.") +easier to keep track of applications running in the background.") (license license:gpl2+))) (define-public gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm index d727f18ed8..762e48f572 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm @@ -357,8 +357,8 @@ services.") ("libsoup" ,libsoup) ("libxml2" ,libxml2))) (synopsis "Glib library for feeds") - (description "LibGRSS is a Glib abstaction to handle feeds in RSS, Atom and -other formats.") + (description "LibGRSS is a Glib abstraction to handle feeds in RSS, Atom, +and other formats.") (home-page "https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libgrss") (license license:lgpl3+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/golang.scm b/gnu/packages/golang.scm index 8723592b51..001c864505 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/golang.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/golang.scm @@ -2822,7 +2822,7 @@ cross-compilation.") (synopsis "Walk a value in Go using reflection") (description "reflectwalk is a Go library for \"walking\" a value in Go using reflection, in the same way a directory tree can be \"walked\" on the -filesystem. Walking a complex structure can allow you to do manipulations on +file system. Walking a complex structure can allow you to do manipulations on unknown structures such as those decoded from JSON.") (license license:expat))) @@ -5237,11 +5237,11 @@ errors (warnings).") (native-inputs `(("go-gopkg-in-check-v1" ,go-gopkg-in-check-v1))) (home-page "https://github.com/go-git/go-billy/") - (synopsis "Filesystem abstraction for Go") - (description "Billy implements an interface based on the os standard -library, allowing to develop applications without dependency on the underlying -storage. Makes it virtually free to implement mocks and testing over -filesystem operations.") + (synopsis "File system abstraction for Go") + (description "Billy implements an interface based on the OS's standard +library to develop applications without depending on the underlying storage. +This makes it virtually free to implement mocks and testing over +file system operations.") (license license:asl2.0))) (define-public go-github-com-jbenet-go-context diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell-check.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell-check.scm index 7f7bc22da5..b5546f97f8 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/haskell-check.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/haskell-check.scm @@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ library's promised without anyone noticing. This package provides a disciplined way of specifying such properties, and have them checked by the compiler. This way, this checking can be part of the -ususal development cycle and regressions caught early. +regular development cycle and regressions caught early. See the documentation in \"Test.Inspection\" or the project webpage for more examples and more information.") diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell-web.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell-web.scm index 98d163566c..a4269599f6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/haskell-web.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/haskell-web.scm @@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ from Yesod.") ("ghc-hspec" ,ghc-hspec))) (home-page "https://www.yesodweb.com") (synopsis "Form handling support for Yesod Web Framework") - (description "This Haskell package provies a set of basic form inputs such + (description "This Haskell package provides a set of basic form inputs such as text, number, time, checkbox, select, textarea, etc through the @code{Yesod.Form.Fields} module. Also, there is @code{Yesod.Form.Nic} module providing richtext field using Nic editor. ") diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm index f4af00283c..5b9da15630 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/haskell-xyz.scm @@ -5524,8 +5524,8 @@ Vim.") (build-system haskell-build-system) (home-page "https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hex") (synopsis "Convert strings into hexadecimal and back") - (description "This package provides conversion functions between -bytestrings and their hexademical representation.") + (description "This package converts between bytestrings and their +hexadecimal string representation.") (license license:bsd-3))) (define-public ghc-highlighting-kate diff --git a/gnu/packages/hyperledger.scm b/gnu/packages/hyperledger.scm index c1b8215584..82680cd5e4 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/hyperledger.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/hyperledger.scm @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Originally Ed25519 consists of three modules: @itemize @item digital signature algorithm itself @item SHA512 hash function -@item random number generator, to generate keypairs +@item random number generator, to generate key pairs @end itemize This project offers at least two different C implementations for every diff --git a/gnu/packages/java.scm b/gnu/packages/java.scm index 8c594f5fe2..40b0a8c1dd 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/java.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/java.scm @@ -10949,7 +10949,7 @@ application components to create, send, receive, and read messages.") `(("junit" ,java-junit) ("hamcrest" ,java-hamcrest-core))) (home-page "https://javaee.github.io/javamail/") - (synopsis "Mail-related functionnalities in Java") + (synopsis "Mail-related functionality in Java") (description "The JavaMail API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications.") ;; General Public License Version 2 only ("GPL") or the Common Development @@ -12226,7 +12226,7 @@ Java method invocation.") (inputs `(("java-native-access" ,java-native-access))) (synopsis "Cross-platform mappings for jna") - (description "java-native-access-platfrom has cross-platform mappings + (description "java-native-access-platform has cross-platform mappings and mappings for a number of commonly used platform functions, including a large number of Win32 mappings as well as a set of utility classes that simplify native access."))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm b/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm index d264ca5bbe..c4479de995 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm @@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@ maintaining an index of the contents of your files.") (home-page "https://community.kde.org/Frameworks") (synopsis "Access usage statistics collected by the activity manager") (description "The KActivitiesStats library provides a querying mechanism for -the data that the activitiy manager collects - which documents have been opened +the data that the activity manager collects---which documents have been opened by which applications, and what documents have been linked to which activity.") ;; triple licensed (license (list license:lgpl2.0+ license:lgpl2.1+ license:lgpl3+)))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/kde-utils.scm b/gnu/packages/kde-utils.scm index 5e6a872314..4d9f3736c8 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/kde-utils.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/kde-utils.scm @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ twin-panel (commander-style) file manager, similar to Midnight Commander or Total Commander It provides all the file management features you could possibly want. Plus: -extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support, FTP, advanced search +extensive archive handling, mounted file system support, FTP, advanced search module, an internal viewer/editor, directory synchronisation, file content comparisons, powerful batch renaming and much much more. It supports a wide variety of archive formats and can handle other KIO slaves such as smb or diff --git a/gnu/packages/language.scm b/gnu/packages/language.scm index 0c59cd1bf7..89e5e307eb 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/language.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/language.scm @@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.).") `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config))) (home-page "http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/") (synopsis "Doing phonetics by computer") - (description "Praat is a tool to perform phonetics tasks. It can do speach -analysis (pitch, formant, intensity, ...), speach synthesis, labeling, segmenting + (description "Praat is a tool to perform phonetics tasks. It can do speech +analysis (pitch, formant, intensity, ...), speech synthesis, labelling, segmenting and manipulation.") (license gpl2+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index 2c80bda7ce..f443299dfc 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm @@ -6008,10 +6008,8 @@ under GNU/Linux. Features include: @item Light can automatically figure out the best controller to use, making full use of underlying hardware. @item It is possible to set a minimum brightness value, as some controllers -set the screen to be pitch black at a vaĺue of 0 (or higher). -@end itemize - -Light is the successor of lightscript.") +set the screen to be pitch black at a value of 0 (or higher). +@end itemize\n") (license license:gpl3+))) (define-public brightnessctl diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm index ef08960497..69ebdb3eb8 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm @@ -13656,7 +13656,7 @@ simplify class and condition declarations. Features include: @itemize @item Automatically export all or select slots at compile time. -@item Define the @code{:initarg} and @code{:accesor} automatically. +@item Define the @code{:initarg} and @code{:accessor} automatically. @item Specify a name transformer for both the @code{:initarg} and @code{:accessor}, etc. @item Specify the @code{:initform} as second slot value. diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm index fcdefbb577..70e2fcd76b 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm @@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ scripts to prevent embarrassing errors later on.") "Technology for Resting Email Encrypted Storage (TREES) is a NaCL-based Dovecot encryption plugin. This plugin adds individually encrypted mail storage to the Dovecot IMAP server. It is inspired by Posteo's scrambler -which uses OpenSSL and RSA keypairs. TREES works in a similar way, but uses +which uses OpenSSL and RSA key pairs. TREES works in a similar way, but uses the Sodium crypto library (based on NaCL). How it works: @@ -2590,7 +2590,7 @@ transfer protocols.") (description "Sieve-connect lets you view, upload, edit, delete, and otherwise manage Sieve scripts on any mail server that speaks the @dfn{ManageSieve} protocol, -as specifed in RFC 5804. +as specified in RFC 5804. @dfn{Sieve} (RFC 5228) is a specialised language for e-mail filtering. Sieve scripts are stored on the server and run whenever mail arrives. They can diff --git a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm index 33c3fa0494..f92d62691f 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ repository-wide uninstallability checks.") (home-page "https://opam.ocaml.org") (synopsis "Parser and printer for the opam file syntax") (description "This package contains a parser and a pretty-printer for -the opam file fomat.") +the opam file format.") ;; With static-linking exception (license license:lgpl2.1+))) @@ -2577,9 +2577,9 @@ from the oasis build log (home-page "https://github.com/mjambon/cppo") (synopsis "Equivalent of the C preprocessor for OCaml programs") (description "Cppo is an equivalent of the C preprocessor for OCaml -programs. It allows the definition of simple macros and file inclusion. Cpp ois: +programs. It allows the definition of simple macros and file inclusion. Cppo is: @enumerate -@item more OCaml-friendly than cpp +@item more OCaml-friendly than @command{cpp} @item easy to learn without consulting a manual @item reasonably fast @item simple to install and to maintain. @@ -4369,7 +4369,7 @@ definitions.") "https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_variants_conv") (synopsis "Generation of accessor and iteration functions for OCaml variant types") (description - "This package generates accessors and interation functions for OCaml + "This package generates accessors and iteration functions for OCaml variant types.") (license license:asl2.0))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm index bd6e746b67..1c3d999d79 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm @@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ the caller.") (synopsis "Extract data from Macintosh BinHex files") (description "BinHex is a format for transporting files safely through electronic -mail, as short-lined, 7-bit, semi-compressed data streams. Ths module +mail, as short-lined, 7-bit, semi-compressed data streams. This module provides a means of converting those data streams back into into binary data.") (license license:perl-license))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-crypto.scm b/gnu/packages/python-crypto.scm index 22b1a1ebe3..f39695a850 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python-crypto.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python-crypto.scm @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ Python interface around SSH networking concepts.") (description "This is an easy-to-use implementation of ECDSA cryptography (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm), implemented purely in Python. With this -library, you can quickly create keypairs (signing key and verifying key), sign +library, you can quickly create key pairs (signing key and verifying key), sign messages, and verify the signatures. The keys and signatures are very short, making them easy to handle and incorporate into other protocols.") (license license:expat))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-web.scm b/gnu/packages/python-web.scm index c0d0d5662b..aa7d825f2a 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python-web.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python-web.scm @@ -730,9 +730,9 @@ both of which are installed automatically if you install this library.") (home-page "https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python") (synopsis - "Python HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML specifcation") + "Python HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML specification") (description - "Html5lib is an HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML specifcation + "Html5lib is an HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML specification and written in Python.") (license license:expat))) @@ -4723,7 +4723,7 @@ major web browsers.") ("python-pytest-cov" ,python-pytest-cov))) (arguments '(#:test-target "pytest")) (home-page "https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/venusian") - (synopsis "Library for defering decorator actions") + (synopsis "Library for deferring decorator actions") (description "Venusian is a library which allows framework authors to defer decorator actions. Instead of taking actions when a function (or class) decorator is diff --git a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm index af557fd009..1cd0305fe1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm @@ -18940,7 +18940,7 @@ with a non-list @code{cdr}.") (description "This Python module provides line editing functions similar to the default Emacs-style ones of GNU Readline. Unlike the Python standard library's -@code{readline} package, this one allows access to those capabilties in settings +@code{readline} package, this one allows access to those capabilities in settings outside of a standard command-line interface. It is especially well-suited to interfacing with Urwid, due to a shared syntax for describing key inputs. @@ -20087,11 +20087,11 @@ load balancing.") `(("python-pytest" ,python-pytest) ("which" ,which))) (home-page "https://pypi.org/project/pox/") - (synopsis "Python utilities for filesystem exploration and automated builds") + (synopsis "Python utilities for file system exploration and automated builds") (description "Pox provides a collection of utilities for navigating and manipulating -filesystems. This module is designed to facilitate some of the low level -operating system interactions that are useful when exploring a filesystem on a +file systems. This module is designed to facilitate some of the low-level +operating system interactions that are useful when exploring a file system on a remote host. Pox provides Python equivalents of several shell commands such as @command{which} and @command{find}. These commands allow automated discovery of what has been installed on an operating system, and where the @@ -20440,7 +20440,7 @@ tests.") (description "Python-GSSAPI provides both low-level and high level wrappers around the GSSAPI C libraries. While it focuses on the Kerberos mechanism, it should -also be useable with other GSSAPI mechanisms.") +also be usable with other GSSAPI mechanisms.") (license license:isc))) (define-public python-check-manifest @@ -20516,8 +20516,8 @@ files. These files are used to translate strings in android apps.") `(("python-pytest-cov" ,python-pytest-cov) ("python-pytest-timeout" ,python-pytest-timeout))) (home-page "https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog") - (synopsis "Filesystem events monitoring") - (description "This package provides a way to monitor filesystem events + (synopsis "File system events monitoring") + (description "This package provides a way to monitor file system events such as a file modification and trigger an action. This is similar to inotify, but portable.") (license license:asl2.0))) @@ -20817,9 +20817,9 @@ content models.") `(("python-cffi" ,python-cffi))) (home-page "https://github.com/xattr/xattr") (synopsis - "Python wrapper for extended filesystem attributes") + "Python wrapper for extended file system attributes") (description "This package provides a Python wrapper for using extended -filesystem attributes. Extended attributes extend the basic attributes of files +file system attributes. Extended attributes extend the basic attributes of files and directories in the file system. They are stored as name:data pairs associated with file system objects (files, directories, symlinks, etc).") (license license:expat))) @@ -21832,10 +21832,10 @@ RFC 3464.") (home-page "https://flufli18n.readthedocs.io") (synopsis "API for Python internationalization") (description - "This package provides a high level, convenient API for managing -internationalization translation contexts in Python application. There is a + "This package provides a high-level, convenient API for managing +internationalization/translation contexts in Python applications. There is a simple API for single-context applications, such as command line scripts which -only need to translate into one language during the entire course of thei +only need to translate into one language during the entire course of their execution. There is a more flexible, but still convenient API for multi-context applications, such as servers, which may need to switch language contexts for different tasks.") diff --git a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm index c562ade153..3266db3fe8 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm @@ -648,8 +648,8 @@ outcomes of a code example.") (synopsis "Ripper-style abstract syntax tree to Ruby source generator") (description "Sorcerer generates Ruby code from a Ripper-like abstract syntax tree (i.e. S-Expressions). Sorcerer is targeted mainly at small -snippets of Ruby code, expressable in a single line. Longer examples may be -re-sourced, but they will be rendered in a single line format.") +snippets of Ruby code, expressible in a single line. Longer examples may be +re-sourced, but they will be rendered in a single-line format.") (home-page "https://github.com/rspec-given/sorcerer") (license license:expat))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/rust-apps.scm b/gnu/packages/rust-apps.scm index 0700167521..dba1b26e50 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/rust-apps.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/rust-apps.scm @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ Example use cases: Features: @itemize @bullet -@item Coalesces multiple filesystem events into one, for editors that +@item Coalesces multiple file system events into one, for editors that use swap/backup files during saving @item By default, uses @code{.gitignore} and @code{.ignore} to determine which files to ignore notifications for diff --git a/gnu/packages/rust.scm b/gnu/packages/rust.scm index d5914f012b..e44e78de75 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/rust.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/rust.scm @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ test = { path = \"../libtest\" } (variable "LIBRARY_PATH") (files '("lib" "lib64"))))) - (synopsis "Compiler for the Rust progamming language") + (synopsis "Compiler for the Rust programming language") (description "Rust is a systems programming language that provides memory safety and thread safety guarantees.") (home-page "https://www.rust-lang.org") diff --git a/gnu/packages/shells.scm b/gnu/packages/shells.scm index 5225e12064..6783af24ee 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/shells.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/shells.scm @@ -701,8 +701,9 @@ Its features include: (home-page "https://github.com/rain-1/s") (synopsis "Extremely minimal shell with the simplest syntax possible") (description - "S is a new shell that aims to be extremely simple. -S does not implemnt the POSIX shell standard. + "S is a new shell that aims to be extremely simple. It does not +implement the POSIX shell standard. + There are no globs or \"splatting\" where a variable $FOO turns into multiple command line arguments. One token stays one token forever. This is a \"no surprises\" straightforward approach. diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm index 79f8256a3f..4cac75d5fa 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ manipulating key files.") (base32 "0q7fblaczb7kwbsz0gdy9267z0sllzgmf0c7z5c9mf88wv74ycn6")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) - (description "sshpass is a tool for non-interactivly performing password + (description "sshpass is a tool for non-interactively performing password authentication with SSH's so-called @dfn{interactive keyboard password authentication}.") (license license:gpl2+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm index 57c84d7718..5d81619646 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ to all types of devices that provide serial consoles.") allowing different sounds to indicate different events. While it can be run quite happily on the command line, its intended place of residence is within scripts, notifying the user when something interesting occurs. Of course, it -has no notion of what's interesing, but it's very good at that notifying part.") +has no notion of what's interesting, but it's very good at that notifying part.") (home-page "https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep") (license license:gpl2+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/web.scm b/gnu/packages/web.scm index 7ce087866e..21c227d8eb 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/web.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/web.scm @@ -3713,7 +3713,7 @@ https schemed URLs with LWP.") (home-page "https://metacpan.org/release/LWP-UserAgent-Cached") (synopsis "Simple caching for LWP::UserAgent") (description "LWP::UserAgent::Cached is an LWP::UserAgent subclass with -cache support. It returns responses from the local filesystem if available +cache support. It returns responses from the local file system, if available, instead of making an HTTP request.") (license license:perl-license))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/wv.scm b/gnu/packages/wv.scm index d5888674a7..a8c0d3cbaf 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/wv.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/wv.scm @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Word 9, 8, 7, and 6) to HTML or LaTeX. Word 2 documents can still be converted to plain text but will lack formatting. -Othe programs can use wv as a library to convert Word documents to other +Other programs can use wv as a library to convert Word documents to other formats. AbiWord uses it as its Word importer, and KWord uses concepts and code from wv in theirs.") (home-page "http://wvware.sourceforge.net/") |