nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/idutils/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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{ fetchurl, stdenv, emacs }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "idutils-4.6";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/idutils/${name}.tar.xz";
sha256 = "1hmai3422iaqnp34kkzxdnywl7n7pvlxp11vrw66ybxn9wxg90c1";
};
preConfigure =
''
# Fix for building on Glibc 2.16. Won't be needed once the
# gnulib in idutils is updated.
sed -i '/gets is a security hole/d' lib/stdio.in.h
'';
buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isLinux emacs;
doCheck = true;
patches = [ ./nix-mapping.patch ];
meta = {
description = "Text searching utility";
longDescription = ''
An "ID database" is a binary file containing a list of file
names, a list of tokens, and a sparse matrix indicating which
tokens appear in which files.
With this database and some tools to query it, many
text-searching tasks become simpler and faster. For example,
you can list all files that reference a particular `\#include'
file throughout a huge source hierarchy, search for all the
memos containing references to a project, or automatically
invoke an editor on all files containing references to some
function or variable. Anyone with a large software project to
maintain, or a large set of text files to organize, can benefit
from the ID utilities.
Although the name `ID' is short for `identifier', the ID
utilities handle more than just identifiers; they also treat
other kinds of tokens, most notably numeric constants, and the
contents of certain character strings.
'';
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
maintainers = [ ];
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
};
}