Subject: bug#40150: closed (Re: [bug#40150] [PATCH] gnu/packages/base.scm: Make coreutils description clearer.)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:16:02 +0000

Your bug report

#40150: [PATCH] gnu/packages/base.scm:  Make coreutils description clearer.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug#40150] [PATCH] gnu/packages/base.scm: Make coreutils description clearer.
From: Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
To: Vitaliy Shatrov <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 15:15:41 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello Vitaliy,

Pushed your patch with an edited commit message,

Thank you,

Mathieu

Subject: [PATCH] gnu/packages/base.scm: Make coreutils description clearer.
From: Vitaliy Shatrov <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:35:58 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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From 0f5df5bb98018f2dce9a09f9902b557baab449d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vitaliy Shatrov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:19:58 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] gnu/packages/base.scm:  Make coreutils description clearer.

* gnu/packages/base.scm
   ( Used help of anadon, nckx, and NieDzejkob on IRC, and
   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/README to state it
   clear that coreutils package has no shell app included. )
---
 gnu/packages/base.scm | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index e8150708c0..96f325920b 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -353,10 +353,11 @@ used to apply commands with arbitrarily long arguments.")
                      #t)))))
    (synopsis "Core GNU utilities (file, text, shell)")
    (description
-    "GNU Coreutils includes all of the basic command-line tools that are
-expected in a POSIX system.  These provide the basic file, shell and text
-manipulation functions of the GNU system.  Most of these tools offer extended
-functionality beyond that which is outlined in the POSIX standard.")
+    "GNU Coreutils package includes all of the basic command-line tools
+that are expected in a POSIX system, excluding shell.  This package is the
+union of the GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.  Most of
+these tools offer extended functionality beyond that which is outlined in
+the POSIX standard.")
    (license gpl3+)
    (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/")))
 
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