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bug#31494: [PATCH] gnu: gifsicle: New variable.


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#31494: [PATCH] gnu: gifsicle: New variable.
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 22:22:04 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/image.scm (gifsicle): New variable.

Applied with the minor changes below, in line with
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Synopses-and-Descriptions.html>.

Thank you!

Ludo’.

diff --git a/gnu/packages/image.scm b/gnu/packages/image.scm
index 752815c58..d6c39e5c7 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image.scm
@@ -1426,29 +1426,25 @@ in-memory raw vectors.")
               (("/bin/sh")
                (which "sh"))
               (("/bin/rm")
-               (which "rm"))))))))
+               (which "rm")))
+            #t)))))
    (native-inputs `(("perl" ,perl))) ; Only for tests.
    (inputs `(("libx11" ,libx11)))
    (home-page "http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/";)
    (synopsis "Edit GIF images and animations")
-   (description "Gifsicle is a commandline GIF swiss-army knife.  Features:
+   (description "Gifsicle is a command-line GIF image manipulation tool that:
+
 @itemize
address@hidden Batch mode for changing GIFs in place.
address@hidden Provides a batch mode for changing GIFs in place.
 @item Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments.
address@hidden Control over interlacing, comments, looping, transparency...
address@hidden Control over interlacing, comments, looping, transparency, etc.
 @item Creates well-behaved GIFs: removes redundant colors, only uses local 
color
-tables if it absolutely has to (local color tables waste space and can cause
-viewing artifacts), etc.
address@hidden It can shrink colormaps and change images to use the Web-safe 
palette (or
-any colormap you choose).
address@hidden Optimize your animations!  This stores only the changed portion 
of each
-frame, and can radically shrink your GIFs.  You can also use transparency to
-make them even smaller.  Gifsicle's optimizer is pretty powerful, and usually
-reduces animations to within a couple bytes of the best commercial optimizers.
address@hidden Unoptimizing animations, which makes them easier to edit.
+tables, etc.
address@hidden Shrinks colormaps and change images to use the Web-safe palette.
address@hidden Optimizes GIF animations, or unoptimizes them for easier editing.
 @end itemize
 
-Two other programs are included with Gifsicle: @code{gifview} is a lightweight
-animated-GIF viewer which can show animations as slideshows or in real time,
-and @code{gifdiff} compares two GIFs for identical visual appearance.")
+Two other programs are included with Gifsicle: @command{gifview} is a
+lightweight animated-GIF viewer, and @command{gifdiff} compares two GIFs for
+identical visual appearance.")
    (license license:gpl2+)))

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