nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/4.13a.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, lzma }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "texinfo-4.13a";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13a.tar.lzma";
sha256 = "1rf9ckpqwixj65bw469i634897xwlgkm5i9g2hv3avl6mv7b0a3d";
};
buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
nativeBuildInputs = [ lzma ];
# Disabled because we don't have zdiff in the stdenv bootstrap.
#doCheck = true;
meta = {
description = "The GNU documentation system";
longDescription = ''
Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project.
It was invented by Richard Stallman and Bob Chassell many years
ago, loosely based on Brian Reid's Scribe and other formatting
languages of the time. It is used by many non-GNU projects as
well.
Texinfo uses a single source file to produce output in a number
of formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf, xml,
etc.). This means that instead of writing different documents
for online information and another for a printed manual, you
need write only one document. And when the work is revised, you
need revise only that one document. The Texinfo system is
well-integrated with GNU Emacs.
'';
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/;
};
}