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diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile.scm b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
index c74d0512c6..0b50530b22 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/guile.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
(variable "GUILE_LOAD_PATH")
(directories '("share/guile/site")))))
- (synopsis "GNU Guile 1.8, an embeddable Scheme interpreter")
+ (synopsis "Scheme implementation intended especially for extensions")
(description
"GNU Guile 1.8 is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language,
packaged as a library that can be embedded into programs to make them
@@ -104,14 +104,14 @@ extensible. It supports many SRFIs.")
(define-public guile-2.0
(package
(name "guile")
- (version "2.0.7")
+ (version "2.0.9")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/guile/guile-" version
".tar.xz"))
(sha256
(base32
- "0f53pxkia4v17n0avwqlcjpy0n89hkazm2xsa6p84lv8k6k8y9vg"))))
+ "0nw9y8vjyz4r61v06p9msks5lm58pd91irmzg4k487vmv743h2pp"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(native-inputs `(("pkgconfig" ,pkg-config)))
(inputs `(("libffi" ,libffi)
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ extensible. It supports many SRFIs.")
(variable "GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH")
(directories '("share/guile/site/2.0")))))
- (synopsis "GNU Guile 2.0, an embeddable Scheme implementation")
+ (synopsis "Scheme implementation intended especially for extensions")
(description
"GNU Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, with
support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments.
@@ -164,7 +164,15 @@ call interface, and powerful string processing.")
(define-public guile-2.0/fixed
;; A package of Guile 2.0 that's rarely changed. It is the one used
;; in the `base' module, and thus changing it entails a full rebuild.
- guile-2.0)
+ (package (inherit guile-2.0)
+ (version "2.0.7")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/guile/guile-" version
+ ".tar.xz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0f53pxkia4v17n0avwqlcjpy0n89hkazm2xsa6p84lv8k6k8y9vg"))))))
;;;
@@ -244,8 +252,7 @@ many readers as needed).")
out)))))
%standard-phases)))
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-ncurses/")
- (synopsis
- "GNU Guile-Ncurses, Scheme interface to the NCurses libraries")
+ (synopsis "Guile bindings to ncurses")
(description
"GNU Guile-Ncurses is a library for the Guile Scheme interpreter that
provides functions for creating text user interfaces. The text user interface
@@ -271,8 +278,7 @@ menu.")
`(("ed" ,ed) ("which" ,which) ("guile" ,guile-1.8)
("patch/install" ,(search-patch "mcron-install.patch"))))
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/")
- (synopsis
- "GNU mcron, a flexible implementation of `cron' in Guile")
+ (synopsis "Run jobs at scheduled times")
(description
"The GNU package mcron (Mellor's cron) is a 100% compatible replacement
for Vixie cron. It is written in pure Guile, and allows configuration files