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Fix many package descriptions

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(My OCD kicked in today...)

Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.

I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.

I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).

Some specifics worth mentioning:
 * cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
   mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
   description.

 * ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
   "exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
   at the end of description.

 * nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
   doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
   the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
   makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
   nixos.org).

 * Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
   is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
   contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
   either.
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Bjørn Forsman
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
parent 2a6c7e2874
commit c9baba9212
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@@ -17,7 +17,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
installPhase = ''make INSTPREFIX=$out install'';
meta = {
description = "Partclone provides utilities to save and restore used blocks on a partition and is designed for higher compatibility of the file system by using existing libraries, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read and write the ext2 partition";
description = "Utilities to save and restore used blocks on a partition";
longDescription = ''
Partclone provides utilities to save and restore used blocks on a
partition and is designed for higher compatibility of the file system by
using existing libraries, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read and write the
ext2 partition.
'';
homepage = http://partclone.org;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber];