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'.
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Ludovic Courtès 2014-11-05 23:23:38 +01:00
parent 95f92d4e2c
commit 12bcf94a9a
6 changed files with 13 additions and 10 deletions

@ -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,

@ -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.")

@ -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+)))

@ -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+)

@ -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+)))

@ -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