An interesting thing is that: stdenv != overrideCC stdenv gcc49;
I'm not sure why that is, but it doesn't seem important.
/cc maintainers: @nckx, @garbas, @abbradar, @cstrahan, @grwlf.
(cherry picked from commit 3064b6a0cc)
(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.
Old means that we have a newer version in Nixpkgs already. If there is a reason
for the old package to still exist, i.e. because some other package is still
referring to it, then Hydra will still build the package as a dependency, but
we won't want to build old packages on their own right.
fetchpatch is fetchurl that determinizes the patch.
Some parts of generated patches change from time to time, e.g. see #1983 and
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/12815
Using fetchpatch should prevent the hash from changing.
Conflicts (auto-solved):
pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/gitit/default.nix
