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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-10-09 16:14:23 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-10-09 16:14:23 +0200
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Synchronize package descriptions with the Womb.
* gnu/packages/algebra.scm, gnu/packages/aspell.scm, gnu/packages/autotools.scm, gnu/packages/base.scm, gnu/packages/bash.scm, gnu/packages/bison.scm, gnu/packages/cdrom.scm, gnu/packages/cflow.scm, gnu/packages/compression.scm, gnu/packages/cpio.scm, gnu/packages/cppi.scm, gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm, gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm, gnu/packages/ed.scm, gnu/packages/emacs.scm, gnu/packages/fdisk.scm, gnu/packages/freeipmi.scm, gnu/packages/gawk.scm, gnu/packages/gcal.scm, gnu/packages/gcc.scm, gnu/packages/gdb.scm, gnu/packages/gdbm.scm, gnu/packages/gettext.scm, gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm, gnu/packages/global.scm, gnu/packages/gnunet.scm, gnu/packages/gnupg.scm, gnu/packages/gnutls.scm, gnu/packages/gperf.scm, gnu/packages/gprolog.scm, gnu/packages/groff.scm, gnu/packages/grub.scm, gnu/packages/gsasl.scm, gnu/packages/guile.scm, gnu/packages/gv.scm, gnu/packages/help2man.scm, gnu/packages/idutils.scm, gnu/packages/indent.scm, gnu/packages/less.scm, gnu/packages/libidn.scm, gnu/packages/libsigsegv.scm, gnu/packages/libunistring.scm, gnu/packages/lightning.scm, gnu/packages/linux.scm, gnu/packages/lsh.scm, gnu/packages/m4.scm, gnu/packages/mail.scm, gnu/packages/maths.scm, gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm, gnu/packages/nano.scm, gnu/packages/ncurses.scm, gnu/packages/nettle.scm, gnu/packages/ocrad.scm, gnu/packages/oggvorbis.scm, gnu/packages/parted.scm, gnu/packages/plotutils.scm, gnu/packages/pth.scm, gnu/packages/readline.scm, gnu/packages/recutils.scm, gnu/packages/rush.scm, gnu/packages/scheme.scm, gnu/packages/screen.scm, gnu/packages/shishi.scm, gnu/packages/smalltalk.scm, gnu/packages/system.scm, gnu/packages/texinfo.scm, gnu/packages/time.scm, gnu/packages/unrtf.scm, gnu/packages/version-control.scm, gnu/packages/wdiff.scm, gnu/packages/wget.scm, gnu/packages/which.scm, gnu/packages/xnee.scm, gnu/packages/zile.scm: Change value of the 'description' field to that of the Womb.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/gnutls.scm')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
index 766731e289..ce13d81dfb 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/")
(synopsis "ASN.1 library")
(description
- "Libtasn1 is the ASN.1 library used by GnuTLS, GNU Shishi and some
-other packages. The goal of this implementation is to be highly
-portable, and only require an ANSI C89 platform.")
+ "Libtasn1 is a library implementing the ASN.1 notation. It is used for
+transmitting machine-neutral encodings of data objects in computer
+networking, allowing for formal validation of data according to some
+specifications.")
(license lgpl2.0+)))
(define-public gnutls
@@ -79,15 +80,8 @@ portable, and only require an ANSI C89 platform.")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/")
(synopsis "Transport layer security library")
(description
- "GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides
-a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS
-library implements the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working
-group.
-
-Quoting from the TLS protocol specification:
-
-\"The TLS protocol provides communications privacy over the
-Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate
-in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or
-message forgery.\"")
+ "GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS
+and DTLS protocols. It is provided in the form of a C library to the
+protocols, as well as to parse and write X.5009, PKCS 12, OpenPGP and other
+required structures.")
(license lgpl2.1+)))