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04/04: gnu: corkscrew: Improve descriptions.


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: 04/04: gnu: corkscrew: Improve descriptions.
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:41:58 -0400 (EDT)

nckx pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 10c95711b4ec69706377bd0f3db86f1cf2bb047a
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Mar 27 17:31:54 2017 +0200

    gnu: corkscrew: Improve descriptions.
    
    * gnu/packages/ssh.scm (corkscrew)[synopsis, description]: Fix typos and
    condense.  Remove scary warning (the tunnel is always encrypted through
    SSH) and speculation.
---
 gnu/packages/ssh.scm | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
index 67ffe1f..b5c73ea 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
@@ -292,12 +292,11 @@ libssh library.")
                              (string-append "." "/configure")
                              flags))))))))
     (home-page "http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew";)
-    (synopsis "Tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies")
+    (synopsis "SSH tunneling through HTTP(S) proxies")
     (description
-     "Corkscrew allows creating TCP tunnels through HTTP proxies.  WARNING:
-At the moment only plain text authentication is supported, should you require
-to use it with your HTTP proxy.  Digest based authentication may be supported
-in future and NTLM based authentication is most likey never be supported.")
+     "Corkscrew tunnels SSH connections through most HTTP and HTTPS proxies.
+Proxy authentication is only supported through the plain-text HTTP basic
+authentication scheme.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
 
 (define-public mosh



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