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Brandon Invergo <brandon@gnu.org> skribis:

>> Is there any easy way to extract long descriptions from GSRC?  There
>> could be a script in Guix, similar to what we have for the Womb.  I
>> suspect it might be a bit more work, though.
>
>  I took inspiration from you guys and made a way to output package
>  information in the Recutils recfile format. An entire package manifest
>  in recfile format can be made with "make manifest" in the top-level GSRC
>  directory (it's also included by default in the last distribution,
>  gsrc-2013-04-06.tar.gz, but I recommend checking out the bzr repo).

Great.  I was able to build it (with $srcdir =3D $buildir).

Is there a place on-line where a pre-built MANIFEST.rec is/could be made
available?  That would simplify automation on the Guix side (for the
Womb, we just take gnupackages.txt from CVSWeb.)

[...]

>  Of course, I welcome any suggested changes or corrections to the
>  descriptions. As you can imagine, doing a marathon of describing
>  hundreds of GNU packages alone might have led to some poor wording in
>  places.

How do you usually come up with those descriptions?  I typically take a
paragraph or two from the package=E2=80=99s home page.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.