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gnu: Adjust synopses as recommended by 'guix lint'. 

Remove leading articles and trailing periods in package synopses.
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Ludovic Courtès 2014-09-13 15:50:30 +02:00
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gnu/packages/admin.scm
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@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI.")
"1v9vnzlihqfjsxa93hdbrq72pqqk00dkylmlg8jpxhm7s1w9qfl1"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(home-page "http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/stress")
(synopsis "A tool to impose load on and stress test a computer system")
(synopsis "Impose load on and stress test a computer system")
(description
"'stress' is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O,
or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system and reports any errors it

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gnu/packages/compression.scm
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@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ than gzip and 15 % smaller output than bzip2.")
(arguments '(#:configure-flags '("--enable-shared")))
(home-page "http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo")
(synopsis
"A data compresion library suitable for real-time data de-/compression")
"Data compresion library suitable for real-time data de-/compression")
(description
"LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data
de-/compression in real-time. This means it favours speed over

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@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
;; ("inetutils" ,inetutils)
("ed" ,ed)))
(home-page "http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/software/cook")
(synopsis "A tool for constructing files")
(synopsis "Tool for constructing files")
(description "Cook is a tool for constructing files. It is given a set of
files to create, and recipes of how to create them. In any non-trivial program
there will be prerequisites to performing the actions necessary to creating

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@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ SQL, Key/Value, XML/XQuery or Java Object storage for their data model.")
(string-append out "/share/info/mysql.info")))))
%standard-phases)))
(home-page "http://www.mysql.com/")
(synopsis "A fast, easy to use, and popular database")
(synopsis "Fast, easy to use, and popular database")
(description
"MySQL is a fast, reliable, and easy to use relational database
management system that supports the standardized Structured Query

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@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ addr2line, and more.")
(string-append "--prefix=" out)))))
%standard-phases)))
(home-page "http://www.mr511.de/software/english.html")
(synopsis "An ELF object file access library")
(synopsis "ELF object file access library")
(description "libelf is a C library to access ELF object files.")
(license lgpl2.0+)))

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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2014 Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ languages.")
(define-public emacs-no-x-toolkit
(package (inherit emacs)
(location (source-properties->location (current-source-location)))
(name "emacs-no-x-toolkit")
(synopsis "The extensible, customizable, self-documenting text
editor (without an X toolkit)" )

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
("indent" ,indent))))
(propagated-inputs `(("m4" ,m4)))
(home-page "http://flex.sourceforge.net/")
(synopsis "A fast lexical analyser generator")
(synopsis "Fast lexical analyser generator")
(description
"Flex is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes
called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in

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@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ anti-aliased glyph bitmap generation with 256 gray levels.")
(string-append "--with-add-fonts="
(assoc-ref %build-inputs "gs-fonts")
"/share/fonts"))))
(synopsis "Fontconfig, a library for configuring and customising font access.")
(synopsis "Library for configuring and customizing font access")
(description
"Fontconfig can discover new fonts when installed automatically;
perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can
@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display.")
`(#:tests? #f ; no test target
#:make-flags
'("without_doc")))
(synopsis "T1lib, a library for generating bitmaps from type 1 fonts.")
(synopsis "Library for generating bitmaps from Type 1 fonts")
(description
"T1lib is a library for generating/rasterising bitmaps from Type 1 fonts.
It is based on the code of the X11 rasteriser of the X11 project.

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
'())))
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/")
(synopsis "A text scanning and processing language")
(synopsis "Text scanning and processing language")
(description
"Gawk is the GNU implementation of Awk, a specialized programming
language for the easy manipulation of formatted text, such as tables of data.

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@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ Go. It also includes runtime support libraries for these languages.")
(inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp)))
(home-page "http://isl.gforge.inria.fr/")
(synopsis
"A library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded
by linear constraints")
"Manipulating sets and relations of integer points \
bounded by linear constraints")
(description
"isl is a library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points
bounded by linear constraints. Supported operations on sets include
@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ dependence analysis and bounds on piecewise step-polynomials.")
("isl" ,isl)))
(arguments '(#:configure-flags '("--with-isl=system")))
(home-page "http://www.cloog.org/")
(synopsis "A library to generate code for scanning Z-polyhedra")
(synopsis "Library to generate code for scanning Z-polyhedra")
(description
"CLooG is a free software library to generate code for scanning
Z-polyhedra. That is, it finds a code (e.g., in C, FORTRAN...) that

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@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ the API")
("glib" ,glib "bin")))
(propagated-inputs `(("pangox-compat" ,pangox-compat)))
(home-page "https://projects.gnome.org/gtkglext")
(synopsis "OpenGL extension to GTK+.")
(synopsis "OpenGL extension to GTK+")
(description "GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK+. It provides
additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK+ and GtkWidget
API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.")

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@ -39,8 +39,7 @@
;; Report them upstream.
'(#:tests? #f))
(home-page "http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind")
(synopsis
"A portable and efficient API to determine the call-chain of a program")
(synopsis "Determining the call chain of a program")
(description
"The primary goal of this project is to define a portable and efficient C
programming interface (API) to determine the call-chain of a program. The API

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@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ packet filter.")
(home-page
"http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2")
(synopsis
"A collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP networking and traffic control in Linux")
"Utilities for controlling TCP/IP networking and traffic in Linux")
(description
"Iproute2 is a collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP
networking and traffic with the Linux kernel.

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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
("texinfo" ,texinfo)
("texlive" ,texlive)))
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl")
(synopsis "A Common Lisp implementation")
(synopsis "Common Lisp implementation")
(description "GCL is an implementation of the Common Lisp language. It
features the ability to compile to native object code and to load native
object code modules directly into its lisp core. It also features a

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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
"/share/man/man1")))))
(alist-delete 'configure %standard-phases)))))
(home-page "http://www.lua.org/")
(synopsis "An embeddable scripting language.")
(synopsis "Embeddable scripting language")
(description
"Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua
combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs

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@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations.")
(define-public petsc-complex
(package (inherit petsc)
(location (source-properties->location (current-source-location)))
(name "petsc-complex")
(arguments
(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments petsc)

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@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ protocol.")
("libmpdclient" ,libmpdclient)
("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
(native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
(synopsis "A curses Music Player Daemon client")
(synopsis "Curses Music Player Daemon client")
(description "ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a
terminal using ncurses.")
(home-page "http://www.musicpd.org/clients/ncmpc/")

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@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
(string-append gs-fonts "/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript"))
(("#fontFile") "fontFile"))))
%standard-phases)))
(synopsis "Viewer for pdf files based on the Motif toolkit.")
(synopsis "Viewer for PDF files based on the Motif toolkit")
(description
"Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files")
(license license:gpl3) ; or gpl2, but not gpl2+

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@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ data types.")
(build-system python-build-system)
(arguments `(#:tests? #f)) ; no test target
(home-page "https://launchpad.net/pytz")
(synopsis "The Python timezone library.")
(synopsis "Python timezone library")
(description
"This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations
using Python 2.4 or higher and provides access to the Olson timezone database.")
@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ API for locking files.")
(build-system python-build-system)
(arguments '(#:test-target "check"))
(home-page "http://code.google.com/m/mock/")
(synopsis "A Python Mocking and Patching Library for Testing")
(synopsis "Python mocking and patching library for testing")
(description
"Mock is a library for testing in Python. It allows you to replace parts
of your system under test with mock objects and make assertions about how they
@ -714,8 +714,7 @@ Python 3.3+.")
; linking with libpython3.3m
#:tests? #f)) ; no check target
(home-page "http://pyicu.osafoundation.org/")
(synopsis
"Python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API.")
(synopsis "Python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API")
(description
"PyICU is a python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API.")
(license x11)))
@ -987,7 +986,7 @@ software.")
'(#:tests? #f)) ; no setup.py test command
(home-page
"https://github.com/dbtsai/python-mimeparse")
(synopsis "Python library for parsing MIME types.")
(synopsis "Python library for parsing MIME types")
(description
"Mimeparse provides basic functions for parsing MIME type names and
matching them against a list of media-ranges.")

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
`(("perl" ,perl)
("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
(home-page "http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/")
(synopsis "A simple mouse-free tiling window manager")
(synopsis "Simple mouse-free tiling window manager")
(description
"Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library
dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no

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@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ Scheme and C programs and between Scheme and Java programs.")
("which" ,which)
("patchelf" ,patchelf)))
(home-page "http://hop.inria.fr/")
(synopsis "A multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0")
(synopsis "Multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0")
(description
"HOP is a multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0 and the
so-called diffuse Web. It is designed for programming interactive web

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@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ joystick, and graphics hardware.")
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(inputs `(("alsa-lib" ,alsa-lib)
("libx11" ,libx11)))
(synopsis "Library for module sound formats.")
(synopsis "Library for module sound formats")
(description
"MikMod is able to play a wide range of module formats, as well as
digital sound files. It can take advantage of particular features of your

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@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ libssh library.")
flags))))
%standard-phases)))
(home-page "http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew")
(synopsis "A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies")
(synopsis "Tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies")
(description
"Corkscrew allows creating TCP tunnels through HTTP proxies. WARNING:
At the moment only plain text authentication is supported, should you require

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;;
@ -118,8 +118,7 @@
#:test-target "test"))
(home-page "http://expect.nist.gov/")
(synopsis
"A tool for automating interactive applications")
(synopsis "Tool for automating interactive applications")
(description
"Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as
telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this

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@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
(symlink "tcsh" "csh"))))
%standard-phases))))
(home-page "http://www.tcsh.org/")
(synopsis "A Unix shell based on csh")
(synopsis "Unix shell based on csh")
(description
"Tcsh is an enhanced, but completely compatible version of the Berkeley
UNIX C shell (csh). It is a command language interpreter usable both as an

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@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
`(("libevent" ,libevent)
("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
(home-page "http://tmux.sourceforge.net/")
(synopsis "A terminal multiplexer")
(synopsis "Terminal multiplexer")
(description
"tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or
windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
;; TODO: Recommend `torsocks' since `torify' needs it.
(home-page "http://www.torproject.org/")
(synopsis "An anonymous network router to improve privacy on the Internet")
(synopsis "Anonymous network router to improve privacy on the Internet")
(description
"Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed
network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
"11pblz61zyxh68s5pdcbhc30ha1b2vfjd83aiwfg4vc15x3hadw2"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(home-page "http://www.libexpat.org/")
(synopsis "A stream-oriented XML parser library written in C")
(synopsis "Stream-oriented XML parser library written in C")
(description
"Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a
stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for

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@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
(native-inputs
`(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
(home-page "http://xeyes.sourcearchive.com/")
(synopsis "A follow the mouse X demo")
(synopsis "Follow-the-mouse X demo")
(description "Xeyes is a demo program for x.org. It shows eyes
following the mouse.")
(license license:x11)))