gnu: Adjust synopses as recommended by 'guix lint'.

Remove leading articles and trailing periods in package synopses.

gnu/packages/admin.scm

@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ (define-public stress
                 "1v9vnzlihqfjsxa93hdbrq72pqqk00dkylmlg8jpxhm7s1w9qfl1"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (home-page "http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/stress")
-    (synopsis "A tool to impose load on and stress test a computer system")
+    (synopsis "Impose load on and stress test a computer system")
     (description
      "'stress' is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O,
 or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system and reports any errors it

gnu/packages/compression.scm

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ (define-public lzo
     (arguments '(#:configure-flags '("--enable-shared")))
     (home-page "http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo")
     (synopsis
-     "A data compresion library suitable for real-time data de-/compression")
+     "Data compresion library suitable for real-time data de-/compression")
     (description
      "LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data
 de-/compression in real-time.  This means it favours speed over

gnu/packages/cook.scm

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ (define-public cook
                      ;; ("inetutils" ,inetutils)
                      ("ed" ,ed)))
     (home-page "http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/software/cook")
-    (synopsis "A tool for constructing files")
+    (synopsis "Tool for constructing files")
     (description "Cook is a tool for constructing files. It is given a set of
 files to create, and recipes of how to create them. In any non-trivial program
 there will be prerequisites to performing the actions necessary to creating

gnu/packages/databases.scm

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ (define (rm-rf dir)
                                (string-append out "/share/info/mysql.info")))))
                  %standard-phases)))
     (home-page "http://www.mysql.com/")
-    (synopsis "A fast, easy to use, and popular database")
+    (synopsis "Fast, easy to use, and popular database")
     (description
      "MySQL is a fast, reliable, and easy to use relational database
 management system that supports the standardized Structured Query

gnu/packages/elf.scm

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ (define-public libelf
                                          (string-append "--prefix=" out)))))
                            %standard-phases)))
     (home-page "http://www.mr511.de/software/english.html")
-    (synopsis "An ELF object file access library")
+    (synopsis "ELF object file access library")
     (description "libelf is a C library to access ELF object files.")
     (license lgpl2.0+)))
 

gnu/packages/emacs.scm

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
-;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ (define-public emacs
 
 (define-public emacs-no-x-toolkit
   (package (inherit emacs)
+    (location (source-properties->location (current-source-location)))
     (name "emacs-no-x-toolkit")
     (synopsis "The extensible, customizable, self-documenting text
 editor (without an X toolkit)" )

gnu/packages/flex.scm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ (define flex
          ("indent" ,indent))))
     (propagated-inputs `(("m4" ,m4)))
     (home-page "http://flex.sourceforge.net/")
-    (synopsis "A fast lexical analyser generator")
+    (synopsis "Fast lexical analyser generator")
     (description
      "Flex is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes
 called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in

gnu/packages/fontutils.scm

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ (define-public fontconfig
               (string-append "--with-add-fonts="
                              (assoc-ref %build-inputs "gs-fonts")
                              "/share/fonts"))))
-   (synopsis "Fontconfig, a library for configuring and customising font access.")
+   (synopsis "Library for configuring and customizing font access")
    (description
     "Fontconfig can discover new fonts when installed automatically;
 perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ (define-public t1lib
     `(#:tests? #f ; no test target
       #:make-flags
       '("without_doc")))
-   (synopsis "T1lib, a library for generating bitmaps from type 1 fonts.")
+   (synopsis "Library for generating bitmaps from Type 1 fonts")
    (description
     "T1lib is a library for generating/rasterising bitmaps from Type 1 fonts.
 It is based on the code of the X11 rasteriser of the X11 project.

gnu/packages/gawk.scm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ (define-public gawk
                    '())))
 
    (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/")
-   (synopsis "A text scanning and processing language")
+   (synopsis "Text scanning and processing language")
    (description
     "Gawk is the GNU implementation of Awk, a specialized programming
 language for the easy manipulation of formatted text, such as tables of data.

gnu/packages/gcc.scm

@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ (define-public isl
     (inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp)))
     (home-page "http://isl.gforge.inria.fr/")
     (synopsis
-     "A library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded
+     "Manipulating sets and relations of integer points \
-by linear constraints")
+bounded by linear constraints")
     (description
      "isl is a library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points
 bounded by linear constraints. Supported operations on sets include
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ (define-public cloog
               ("isl" ,isl)))
     (arguments '(#:configure-flags '("--with-isl=system")))
     (home-page "http://www.cloog.org/")
-    (synopsis "A library to generate code for scanning Z-polyhedra")
+    (synopsis "Library to generate code for scanning Z-polyhedra")
     (description
      "CLooG is a free software library to generate code for scanning
 Z-polyhedra.  That is, it finds a code (e.g., in C, FORTRAN...) that

gnu/packages/gnome.scm

@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ (define-public gtkglext
                      ("glib" ,glib "bin")))
     (propagated-inputs `(("pangox-compat" ,pangox-compat)))
     (home-page "https://projects.gnome.org/gtkglext")
-    (synopsis "OpenGL extension to GTK+.")
+    (synopsis "OpenGL extension to GTK+")
     (description "GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK+. It provides
 additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK+ and GtkWidget
 API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.")

gnu/packages/libunwind.scm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ (define-public libunwind
      ;; Report them upstream.
      '(#:tests? #f))
     (home-page "http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind")
-    (synopsis
+    (synopsis "Determining the call chain of a program")
-     "A portable and efficient API to determine the call-chain of a program")
     (description
      "The primary goal of this project is to define a portable and efficient C
 programming interface (API) to determine the call-chain of a program.  The API

gnu/packages/linux.scm

@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ (define-public iproute
     (home-page
      "http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2")
     (synopsis
-     "A collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP networking and traffic control in Linux")
+     "Utilities for controlling TCP/IP networking and traffic in Linux")
     (description
      "Iproute2 is a collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP
 networking and traffic with the Linux kernel.

gnu/packages/lisp.scm

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ (define-public gcl
        ("texinfo" ,texinfo)
        ("texlive" ,texlive)))
     (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl")
-    (synopsis "A Common Lisp implementation")
+    (synopsis "Common Lisp implementation")
     (description "GCL is an implementation of the Common Lisp language.  It
 features the ability to compile to native object code and to load native
 object code modules directly into its lisp core.  It also features a

gnu/packages/lua.scm

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ (define-public lua
                                                      "/share/man/man1")))))
                   (alist-delete 'configure %standard-phases)))))
     (home-page "http://www.lua.org/")
-    (synopsis "An embeddable scripting language.")
+    (synopsis "Embeddable scripting language")
     (description
      "Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.  Lua
 combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs

gnu/packages/maths.scm

@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ (define-public petsc
 
 (define-public petsc-complex
   (package (inherit petsc)
+    (location (source-properties->location (current-source-location)))
     (name "petsc-complex")
     (arguments
      (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments petsc)

gnu/packages/mpd.scm

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ (define ncmpc
               ("libmpdclient" ,libmpdclient)
               ("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
     (native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
-    (synopsis "A curses Music Player Daemon client")
+    (synopsis "Curses Music Player Daemon client")
     (description "ncmpc is a fully featured MPD client, which runs in a
 terminal using ncurses.")
     (home-page "http://www.musicpd.org/clients/ncmpc/")

gnu/packages/pdf.scm

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ (define-public xpdf
                  (string-append gs-fonts "/share/fonts/type1/ghostscript"))
                 (("#fontFile") "fontFile"))))
         %standard-phases)))
-   (synopsis "Viewer for pdf files based on the Motif toolkit.")
+   (synopsis "Viewer for PDF files based on the Motif toolkit")
    (description
     "Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files")
    (license license:gpl3) ; or gpl2, but not gpl2+

gnu/packages/python.scm

@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ (define-public python-pytz
     (build-system python-build-system)
     (arguments `(#:tests? #f)) ; no test target
     (home-page "https://launchpad.net/pytz")
-    (synopsis "The Python timezone library.")
+    (synopsis "Python timezone library")
     (description
      "This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations
 using Python 2.4 or higher and provides access to the Olson timezone database.")
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ (define-public python-mock
     (build-system python-build-system)
     (arguments '(#:test-target "check"))
     (home-page "http://code.google.com/m/mock/")
-    (synopsis "A Python Mocking and Patching Library for Testing")
+    (synopsis "Python mocking and patching library for testing")
     (description
      "Mock is a library for testing in Python.  It allows you to replace parts
 of your system under test with mock objects and make assertions about how they
@@ -714,8 +714,7 @@ (define-public python2-pyicu
                           ; linking with libpython3.3m
        #:tests? #f)) ; no check target
     (home-page "http://pyicu.osafoundation.org/")
-    (synopsis
+    (synopsis "Python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API")
-     "Python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API.")
     (description
      "PyICU is a python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API.")
     (license x11)))
@@ -987,7 +986,7 @@ (define-public python-mimeparse
      '(#:tests? #f)) ; no setup.py test command
     (home-page
      "https://github.com/dbtsai/python-mimeparse")
-    (synopsis "Python library for parsing MIME types.")
+    (synopsis "Python library for parsing MIME types")
     (description
      "Mimeparse provides basic functions for parsing MIME type names and
 matching them against a list of media-ranges.")

gnu/packages/ratpoison.scm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ (define-public ratpoison
       `(("perl" ,perl)
         ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
     (home-page "http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/")
-    (synopsis "A simple mouse-free tiling window manager")
+    (synopsis "Simple mouse-free tiling window manager")
     (description
      "Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library
 dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no

gnu/packages/scheme.scm

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ (define-public hop
               ("which" ,which)
               ("patchelf" ,patchelf)))
     (home-page "http://hop.inria.fr/")
-    (synopsis "A multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0")
+    (synopsis "Multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0")
     (description
      "HOP is a multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0 and the
 so-called diffuse Web.  It is designed for programming interactive web

gnu/packages/sdl.scm

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ (define libmikmod
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (inputs `(("alsa-lib" ,alsa-lib)
               ("libx11" ,libx11)))
-    (synopsis "Library for module sound formats.")
+    (synopsis "Library for module sound formats")
     (description
      "MikMod is able to play a wide range of module formats, as well as
 digital sound files. It can take advantage of particular features of your

gnu/packages/ssh.scm

@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ (define-public corkscrew
                           flags))))
         %standard-phases)))
     (home-page "http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew")
-    (synopsis "A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies")
+    (synopsis "Tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies")
     (description
      "Corkscrew allows creating TCP tunnels through HTTP proxies.  WARNING:
 At the moment only plain text authentication is supported, should you require

gnu/packages/tcl.scm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;;
@@ -118,8 +118,7 @@ (define-public expect
 
        #:test-target "test"))
     (home-page "http://expect.nist.gov/")
-    (synopsis
+    (synopsis "Tool for automating interactive applications")
-     "A tool for automating interactive applications")
     (description
      "Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as
 telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc.  Expect really makes this

gnu/packages/tcsh.scm

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ (define-public tcsh
              (symlink "tcsh" "csh"))))
          %standard-phases))))
     (home-page "http://www.tcsh.org/")
-    (synopsis "A Unix shell based on csh")
+    (synopsis "Unix shell based on csh")
     (description
      "Tcsh is an enhanced, but completely compatible version of the Berkeley
 UNIX C shell (csh). It is a command language interpreter usable both as an

gnu/packages/tmux.scm

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ (define-public tmux
      `(("libevent" ,libevent)
        ("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
     (home-page "http://tmux.sourceforge.net/")
-    (synopsis "A terminal multiplexer")
+    (synopsis "Terminal multiplexer")
     (description
      "tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or
 windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and

gnu/packages/tor.scm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ (define-public tor
     ;; TODO: Recommend `torsocks' since `torify' needs it.
 
     (home-page "http://www.torproject.org/")
-    (synopsis "An anonymous network router to improve privacy on the Internet")
+    (synopsis "Anonymous network router to improve privacy on the Internet")
     (description
      "Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed
 network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents

gnu/packages/xml.scm

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ (define-public expat
                "11pblz61zyxh68s5pdcbhc30ha1b2vfjd83aiwfg4vc15x3hadw2"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (home-page "http://www.libexpat.org/")
-    (synopsis "A stream-oriented XML parser library written in C")
+    (synopsis "Stream-oriented XML parser library written in C")
     (description
      "Expat is an XML parser library written in C.  It is a
 stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for

gnu/packages/xorg.scm

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ (define-public xeyes
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
     (home-page "http://xeyes.sourcearchive.com/")
-    (synopsis "A follow the mouse X demo")
+    (synopsis "Follow-the-mouse X demo")
     (description "Xeyes is a demo program for x.org. It shows eyes
 following the mouse.")
     (license license:x11)))