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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-11-05 23:23:38 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-11-05 23:23:38 +0100
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gnu: Synchronize descriptions with the Womb.
Note: some of these changes undo bits of 35b9e4232. * gnu/packages/base.scm, gnu/packages/gperf.scm, gnu/packages/guile.scm, gnu/packages/libidn.scm, gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm, gnu/packages/telephony.scm: Adjust synopses and descriptions as suggested by 'make sync-descriptions'.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/base.scm2
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/gperf.scm2
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/guile.scm2
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/libidn.scm2
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm13
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/telephony.scm2
6 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 9a58776fb8..078e0c57a3 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ command-line arguments, multiple languages, and so on.")
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(synopsis "Print lines matching a pattern")
(description
- "Grep is a tool for finding text inside files. Text is found by
+ "grep is a tool for finding text inside files. Text is found by
matching a pattern provided by the user in one or many files. The pattern
may be provided as a basic or extended regular expression, or as fixed
strings. By default, the matching text is simply printed to the screen,
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gperf.scm b/gnu/packages/gperf.scm
index 9e2e3c6ec4..9d9aaba3ce 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gperf.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gperf.scm
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/")
(synopsis "Perfect hash function generator")
(description
- "GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given list of
+ "gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given list of
strings, it produces a hash function and hash table in C or C++ code. That
the hash function is perfect means that no collisions can exist and that
look-ups can be made by single string comparisons.")
diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile.scm b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
index 2ae982d10e..edc65d599e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/guile.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ many readers as needed).")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-ncurses/")
(synopsis "Guile bindings to ncurses")
(description
- "GNU Guile-Ncurses provides Guile language bindings for the ncurses
+ "guile-ncurses provides Guile language bindings for the ncurses
library.")
(license lgpl3+)))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/libidn.scm b/gnu/packages/libidn.scm
index 02e15e50fb..3e55618e53 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/libidn.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/libidn.scm
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
;; FIXME: No Java and C# libraries are currently built.
(synopsis "Internationalized string processing library")
(description
- "GNU Libidn is a library implementing of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA
+ "libidn is a library implementing of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA
specifications. These are used to encode and decode internationalized domain
names. It includes native C, C# and Java libraries.")
(license lgpl2.1+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm b/gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm
index e9ee8ad42e..fd0fc7b8e2 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm
@@ -36,9 +36,12 @@
"005588vfrwx8ghsdv9p7zczj9lbc9a3r4m5aphcaqv8gif4siaka"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/miscfiles/")
- (synopsis "Collection of miscellaneous text files")
- (description "Miscfiles is a collection of files not of crucial importance
-for system administration or operation, but which have come to be common on
-various systems over the years. It includes data files for country codes,
-airport codes, currency information, and so on.")
+ (synopsis
+ "Data files for airport codes, zip codes, a dictionary, and more")
+ (description
+ "GNU Miscfiles is a collection of common data files. They include, for
+example, country abbreviations, names and capital cities; currency
+abbreviations and names; a Best Current Practices index; a map of the ASCII
+character set; a list of three-letter airport codes; and an English word
+list.")
(license gpl2+)))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/telephony.scm b/gnu/packages/telephony.scm
index 4f2193ce47..a5a7902f9c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/telephony.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/telephony.scm
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
(("^// TODO sc.*") "#include <sys/types.h>\n#include <sys/stat.h>\n")))
%standard-phases)))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
- (synopsis "Common C++ framework for threaded applications")
+ (synopsis "(u)Common C++ framework for threaded applications")
(description "GNU Common C++ is an portable, optimized class framework for
threaded applications, supporting concurrent synchronization, inter-process
communications via sockets, and various methods for data handling, such as