(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.
Several of its buildInputs (given in all-packages.nix) does not exist
anymore (version updates and attribute renaming?).
Mark as broken to unblock nixpkgs channel.
- To fix build problems, I refactored the build process
according to Mozilla recommendations.
- 31.0 should become the next ESR branch (31 released today).
CC @nbp @edolstra
(cherry picked from commit adc2edd5cf524239690b5cf49779a11fd2eb061b)
This commit rewrites the expression somewhat:
- it tries to simplify the expression.
- it changes from fetchurl to fetchhg.
- a patch to configure.ac is added in order to enable configuring the
source on NixOS.
The "Application.ini" provided with Thunderbird does not correctly set the path to the icon location. Visa vi it refers to '$out/lib/thunderbird-17.0.11esr', which doesn't exist, but '$out/lib/thunderbird-17.0.11' does. To remedy this problem I added a new variable called 'verName" which adds 'esr' after the variable '$version'. Then change the variables necessary so that the build process sets working references.
Fuuzetsu suggested putting the verName variable inside of mkDerivation. I cannot surmise.
