(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.
The following packages are broken with GHC 7.8.3:
- filesystem-conduit version 1.0.0.2
- ghc-events-analyze version 0.2.0
- haskelldb version 2.2.2
- haskell-mpi version 1.2.1
- haxr-th version 3000.5
- hoauth version 0.3.5
- holy-project version 0.1.1.0
- hoogle version 4.2.32
- hspread version 0.3.3
- instant-generics version 0.4
- ivor version 0.1.14.1
- jmacro-rpc-happstack version 0.3
- lambdacube-engine version 0.2.4
- language-c-inline version 0.6.0.0
- lockfree-queue version 0.2.3
- monad-peel version 0.1.1
- network-transport-tests version 0.1.0.1
- poppler version 0.12.3
- profiteur version 0.1.2.1
- prolog-graph-lib version 0.2.0.1
- semigroupoid-extras version 4.0
- setlocale version 0.0.3
- sized-types version 0.5.0
- snaplet-postgresql-simple version 0.5
- snap-loader-dynamic version 0.10.0.2
- uhc git version 20120502
- uniqueid version 0.1.1
- unix-process-conduit version 0.2.2.3
- vado version 0.0.1
- vcsgui version 0.0.4
- xml-html-conduit-lens version 0.3.2.0
The following packages depend on one of the broken ones above:
- hoodle-builder version 0.3
- hoodle-core version 0.14
- hoodle-extra version 0.1
- hoodle-parser version 0.3
- hoodle-render version 0.4
- hoodle-types version 0.3
- hoodle version 0.3
- kansas-lava version 0.2.4
- liblastfm version 0.4.0.0
- prolog-graph version 0.1.0.2
- vacuum-cairo version 0.5
- wcwidth version 0.0.2
For now, we don't NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR because it breaks the
build. However, it points to Glibc in the Nix store (not /usr/include)
so it's kind of okay.
Even if using profiledbootstrap. This was unsafe before 4.8, and
then the documentation was not fixed on time.
The documentation got fixed here:
c763997f34
But the actual code was already fixed here:
5d2fca09d5
So this is safe both for GCC 4.8 and GCC 4.9.
