Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-wcwidth and python2-wcwidth.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 05:40:06PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-wcwidth, python2-wcwidth): New variables.

Thanks for the patch!

What do you think of the attached changes to the synopsis and
description?

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diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 3168de7..4c15771 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -9197,18 +9197,19 @@ are optionally backed by a C extension built on librdkafka.")
       (uri (string-append
              "https://pypi.python.org/packages/"
              "c2/d1/7689293086a8d5320025080cde0e3155b94ae0a7496fb89a3fbaa92c354a/"
-             "wcwidth-"
-             version
-             ".tar.gz"))
+             "wcwidth-" version ".tar.gz"))
       (sha256
         (base32
           "02wjrpf001gjdjsaxxbzcwfg19crlk2dbddayrfc2v06f53yrcyw"))))
   (build-system python-build-system)
   (home-page "https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth")
   (synopsis
-    "Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes")
-  (description
-    "Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes")
+    "Measures number of terminal column cells of wide-character codes.")
+  (description "Wcwidth measures the number of terminal column cells of
+wide-character codes.  It is useful for those implementing a terminal emulator,
+or programs that carefully produce output to be interpreted by one.  It is a
+Python implementation of the @code{wcwidth} and @code{wcwidth} C functions
+specified in POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.")
   (license license:expat)))
 
 (define-public python2-wcwidth