nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/minicom/default.nix
Bjørn Forsman c9baba9212 Fix many package descriptions
(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.
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "minicom-2.7";
src = fetchurl {
url = "http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3977/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "1x04m4k7c71j5cnhzpjrbz43dd96k4mpkd0l87v5skrgp1isdhws";
};
buildInputs = [ncurses];
configureFlags = [ "--sysconfdir=/etc" "--enable-lock-dir=/var/lock" ];
preConfigure =
# Have `configure' assume that the lock directory exists.
'' sed -i "configure" -e's/test -d \$UUCPLOCK/true/g'
'';
meta = {
description = "Modem control and terminal emulation program";
homepage = http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/;
longDescription =
'' Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI
and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem
download.
'';
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.gnu; # arbitrary choice
};
}