Subject: Re: [bug#38436] [PATCH] gnu: Add gfortran-toolchain

From: Konrad Hinsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:11:04 +0100

Hi Ludo,

> There’s this weird requirement that for the sake of i18n, we must not
> construct synopses/descriptions like this:
>
>   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Synopses-and-Descriptions.html

Is that a specific rule for Guix? GNU gettext allows format strings,
and its manual refers to

  https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib/Format-Specification.html

for format string syntax in Scheme. For Guile specifically,
it refers to (ice-9 format).

Cheers,
  Konrad