Synchronizing synopses with the Womb

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Karl,

I’ve finally synchronized synopses of GNU packages found in the
distribution with those found in the Womb, thanks to the tools Nikita
added to Guix some time ago.

I ended up [0] using all the synopses from the Womb (they’re clear,
concise, and objective, whereas ours often repeated the package name,
and sometimes included subjective wording), except in two cases:

  gnu/packages/nano.scm:29:3: nano: proposed synopsis: "Free improved 
replacement for the pico text editor"
  gnu/packages/gdbm.scm:26:3: gdbm: proposed synopsis: "Hash library compatible 
with traditional dbm"

For Nano, I’m not sure it makes sense to mention Pico (Pico wasn’t free,
right?); instead we have "A small, user-friendly console text editor".

For gdbm, “hash library” seems misleading, and I think the word
“database” must appear; I would suggest: “Key/value database library”.

WDYT?

The tool for comparing synopses is now in the repo [1], and run from
‘dist-hook’.  It just reports differences.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

[0] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=f50d2669e3e624365221cc81918ba55fdce94107
[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=0e993428ce5ebd34d3bd9cb200140ffb2a5ef232