[bug#37642] [PATCH] gnu: Add filters

[Jesse Gibbons]

On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 15:14 +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Jesse,
> 
> Jesse Gibbons 写道：
> > That review was a bit of a mess. Let's see if I can rephrase 
> > what you want,
> > in a human-friendly format (no emacs involved):
> 
> Yes, I'm so sorry.  It looked fine while writing; I'm not actually 
> on crack.
emacs might have been.

> > Use a patch instead or move this to the source's snippet so 
> > kenny is removed
> > from the raw source.
> 
> A patch would contain a ‘negative’ verbatim copy of the non-free 
> code so isn't an option here.
> 
Moved it to source's snippet.
> > > +         #:tests? #f))
> > clarify we have no tests suite
> 
> Yep.  Ideally that comment would be redundant because we'd never 
> flat-out disable tests in packages that have them, but we do.
> 
rednotebook's test suite is disabled because it fails, but the program
itself works fine. There's a TODO note there to fix the tests.

Added comment.

> > > +The GNU project hosts a similar collection of filters, the GNU
> > > talkfilters.  Due
> > > +to copyright concerns and difficulty in communication between
> > > maintainers, these
> > > +collections have not been merged.")
> > You want me to remove this.
> > I think it's appropriate to say something about gnu talkfilters 
> > and note
> > that this is not the same package, given that filters and 
> > talkfilters
> > packages are often confused with each other on the internet,
> 
> OK.  I didn't know they were often confused.  Would it make sense 
> to add it to GNU's, too?
> 
> > but I will remove the last sentence.
> 
> Great.  It's the one that bothered me.
> 
Sentence removed
> >  If the comments go beyond 80 characters I will move the 
> >  comments above the license.
> 
> For such whole-line comments you *would* use ‘;;’, start with a 
> capital letter, and end with a full stop…
> 
I was able to fit the comments after a line.
> > Am I missing anything?
> 
- Cleaned up package descriptions. Only one takes up more than a line now,
and they focus more on behavior.
- Changed "80's" to "1980's"
- Fixed various typos

New patch is attached.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R

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