Re: [PATCHES] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> So I'm attaching 2 patches: for lines with leading parenthesis and for
> fixing multiple "typos" (in a general meaning).  Changing
> synopses/descriptions according to "guix lint" (so no problems with
> 'gnu-description') and reorganizing lists are not included.

OK.  These two other patches are welcome too.

> From 826749cbe4c75cee4cff8b96a5b47bc2687fb7c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Kost <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:14:13 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu packages: Avoid description lines with leading "(".
>
> * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl): Reword description to avoid a line
>   beginning with "(" because such lines break font-lock highlighting
>   in Emacs.
> * gnu/packages/flashing-tools.scm (dfu-programmer): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/games.scm (gnugo): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (json-glib): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/image.scm (jbig2dec): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (units): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/pdf.scm (mupdf): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/web.scm (perl-encode-locale): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/wordnet.scm (wordnet): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxml2):Likewise.

LGTM.  I think you should write “reformat” rather than “reword”, because
that’s what it does AFAICS.

> From 71bed1f3c64e8d7a8c5a8345210a74bbe37356a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Kost <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:16:07 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions.
>
> * gnu/packages/admin.scm, gnu/packages/algebra.scm, gnu/packages/audio.scm,
>   gnu/packages/backup.scm, gnu/packages/base.scm, gnu/packages/bittorrent.scm,
>   gnu/packages/code.scm, gnu/packages/compression.scm,
>   gnu/packages/databases.scm, gnu/packages/enchant.scm,
>   gnu/packages/firmware.scm, gnu/packages/fonts.scm,
>   gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm, gnu/packages/games.scm, gnu/packages/gd.scm,
>   gnu/packages/gl.scm, gnu/packages/gnome.scm, gnu/packages/gsasl.scm,
>   gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm, gnu/packages/gtk.scm, gnu/packages/guile.scm,
>   gnu/packages/haskell.scm, gnu/packages/language.scm,
>   gnu/packages/lesstif.scm, gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm,
>   gnu/packages/linux.scm, gnu/packages/llvm.scm, gnu/packages/maths.scm,
>   gnu/packages/mcrypt.scm, gnu/packages/mit-krb5.scm, gnu/packages/mp3.scm,
>   gnu/packages/ncdu.scm, gnu/packages/networking.scm, gnu/packages/ntp.scm,
>   gnu/packages/ocaml.scm, gnu/packages/openbox.scm, gnu/packages/pdf.scm,
>   gnu/packages/perl.scm, gnu/packages/pretty-print.scm,
>   gnu/packages/pulseaudio.scm, gnu/packages/python.scm,
>   gnu/packages/rdesktop.scm, gnu/packages/rdf.scm, gnu/packages/ruby.scm,
>   gnu/packages/slang.scm, gnu/packages/slim.scm, gnu/packages/telephony.scm,
>   gnu/packages/tls.scm, gnu/packages/tmux.scm, gnu/packages/tre.scm,
>   gnu/packages/unrtf.scm, gnu/packages/version-control.scm,
>   gnu/packages/vpn.scm, gnu/packages/web.scm, gnu/packages/wget.scm,
>   gnu/packages/xdisorg.scm, gnu/packages/xfce.scm, gnu/packages/xiph.scm:
>   Fix typos.  Trim long lines.  Add missing periods in the end of sentences.
>   Use double spaces between sentences.  Remove trailing whitespaces.

OK.

Thank you!

Ludo’.