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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Eric Bavier (2015-07-16 12:40 +0300) wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:22 +0300
>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
>>> +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
>>> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
>>>              (sha256
>>>               (base32
>>> "0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i"))))
>>> (build-system gnu-build-system)
>>> -   (synopsis "Hello, GNU world: An example GNU package")
>>> +   (synopsis "Example GNU package")
>>
>> I have not looked over then entire patch, but this one caught my eye.
>> We need to make sure that any changes you make here will not be
>> expediently overwritten by an invocation of `make sync-descriptions`.
>> I believe this has happened in the past already.
>
> I changed this synopsis because "guix lint" doesn't like when the first
> word of a synopsis is the package name.

The problem is that this rule sometimes conflicts with the
‘gnu-description’ checker (aka. ‘make sync-descriptions’), which checks
upstream GNU descriptions.

When such conflicts happen, we should give precedence to the GNU
descriptions.

Ludo’.