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

2015-07-18 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-18 00:24 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-16 22:08 +0300) wrote: > > [...] > >> Since we have our own conventions that are not necessarily coincide with >> the upstream conventions, I believe it would be better to prefer our >> synopses/des

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

2015-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-16 22:08 +0300) wrote: [...] >> 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 prec

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

2015-07-17 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-16 22:08 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Eric Bavier (2015-07-16 12:40 +0300) wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:22 +0300 >>> Alex Kost wrote: >>> --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ (sha

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

2015-07-16 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > What are your concerns and what would you prefer? (I was left with the > impression that there was a rough consensus in the other thread, but > surely there’s a bias.) > > In Emacs it’s quite easily typed (C-x 8 RET etc.), and at worst people > can copy/pa

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

2015-07-16 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Alex Kost writes: > Mathieu Lirzin (2015-07-16 14:52 +0300) wrote: > > IMHO it is better to have a single commit fixing 20 typos than 20 > commits fixing one typo. Your are right. > How can we understand when a decision is made? I had an impression > (perhaps wrong) that people are not going t

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

2015-07-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Eric Bavier (2015-07-16 12:40 +0300) wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:22 +0300 >> Alex Kost wrote: >> >>> --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm >>> +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm >>> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ >>> (sha256 >>> (base32 >>> "0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5

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

2015-07-16 Thread Alex Kost
Mathieu Lirzin (2015-07-16 14:52 +0300) wrote: > For the typos and polishing fixes, I would prefer that the commits were > done in a module related way. So IMO It would be better to have one > commit per-file. IMHO it is better to have a single commit fixing 20 typos than 20 commits fixing one ty

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

2015-07-16 Thread Alex Kost
Eric Bavier (2015-07-16 12:40 +0300) wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:22 +0300 > Alex Kost wrote: > >> --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm >> +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm >> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ >> (sha256 >> (base32 >> "0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i" >

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

2015-07-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > For the typos and polishing fixes, I would prefer that the commits were > done in a module related way. So IMO It would be better to have one > commit per-file. I think one per file would be overkill (and not really helpful review-wise.) One per fix would be nice thoug

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

2015-07-16 Thread Eric Bavier
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:22 +0300 Alex Kost 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,

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

2015-07-16 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Alex Kost writes: > Please pay attention to the commit message. Is it acceptable? :) For the typos and polishing fixes, I would prefer that the commits were done in a module related way. So IMO It would be better to have one commit per-file. Concerning the "•", I think no decision has been ma

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

2015-07-16 Thread Alex Kost
Please pay attention to the commit message. Is it acceptable? >From ccd85cd8fc1b4c71a1e1fe02ad06f0a5413517e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Kost Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:14:13 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: t