Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > Eric Bavier (2015-07-16 12:40 +0300) wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:22 +0300 >> Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> 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’.