Fixed some descriptions

9 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/geis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/geis/default.nix
index 15f42afd9a8..24c24fe5f12 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/geis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/geis/default.nix
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://launchpad.net/geis";
-    description = "GEIS is a library for applications and toolkit programmers which provides a consistent platform independent interface for any system-wide input gesture recognition mechanism.";
+    description = "A library for applications and toolkit programmers which provides a consistent platform independent interface for any system-wide input gesture recognition mechanism";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
   };
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcouchbase/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcouchbase/default.nix
index 841edd3dff6..bcc9e9f673f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcouchbase/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcouchbase/default.nix
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   buildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig perl git libevent openssl];
 
   meta = {
-    description = "C client library for Couchbase.";
+    description = "C client library for Couchbase";
     homepage = "https://github.com/couchbase/libcouchbase";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   };
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cthelper/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cthelper/default.nix
index 197892897f3..97319840975 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cthelper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cthelper/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libmnl ];
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Userspace library that provides the programming interface to the user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure.";
+    description = "Userspace library that provides the programming interface to the user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure";
     longDescription = ''
       libnetfilter_cthelper is the userspace library that provides the programming interface
       to the user-space helper infrastructure available since Linux kernel 3.6. With this
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cttimeout/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cttimeout/default.nix
index 0626e91b8ba..2920cbd9785 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cttimeout/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnetfilter_cttimeout/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libmnl ];
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Userspace library that provides the programming interface to the connection tracking timeout infrastructure.";
+    description = "Userspace library that provides the programming interface to the connection tracking timeout infrastructure";
     longDescription = ''
       libnetfilter_cttimeout is the userspace library that provides the programming
       interface to the fine-grain connection tracking timeout infrastructure.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libosmpbf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libosmpbf/default.nix
index 6ff5d816776..334748d668c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libosmpbf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libosmpbf/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = https://github.com/scrosby/OSM-binary;
-    description = "C library to read and write OpenStreetMap PBF files.";
+    description = "C library to read and write OpenStreetMap PBF files";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl3;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/luabind/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/luabind/default.nix
index edb914123e1..e03535ba979 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/luabind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/luabind/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = https://github.com/luabind/luabind;
-    description = "Luabind is a library that helps you create bindings between C++ and Lua.";
+    description = "A library that helps you create bindings between C++ and Lua";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/arpack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/arpack/default.nix
index 296c5f6b920..01bb3371f5e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/arpack/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/arpack/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     homepage = "http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng/";
     description = ''
       A collection of Fortran77 subroutines to solve large scale eigenvalue
-      problems.
+      problems
     '';
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ttuegel ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/stxxl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/stxxl/default.nix
index b387c59efa1..23590f17ca8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/stxxl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/stxxl/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = https://github.com/stxxl/stxxl;
-    description = "STXXL is an implementation of the C++ standard template library STL for external memory (out-of-core) computations.";
+    description = "An implementation of the C++ standard template library STL for external memory (out-of-core) computations";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.boost;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tevent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tevent/default.nix
index db863d951a6..baa7e288178 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tevent/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tevent/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "an event system based on the talloc memory management library.";
+    description = "An event system based on the talloc memory management library";
     homepage = http://tevent.samba.org/;
     license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ wkennington ];