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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2019-02-15 02:22:45 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2019-02-15 05:41:16 +0100
commitf8be928760b390409293b49d276c0de95730f17c (patch)
treefdaaa806b6fe1eb92979d971967e7173907e3f56
parent863ab122fcbd16b994b35c71d2e124c0f3aeb915 (diff)
downloadguix-f8be928760b390409293b49d276c0de95730f17c.tar.gz
gnu: libxls: Expand synopsis & description.
* gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxls)[synopsis, description]: Expand.
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/xml.scm8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index 51f3871218..30b5a25661 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -1280,10 +1280,12 @@ files.  It is designed to be fast and to handle large input files.")
        ("automake" ,automake)
        ("libtool" ,libtool)))
     (home-page "http://libxls.sourceforge.net/")
-    (synopsis "Read Excel files")
+    (synopsis "Read binary (.xls) Excel spreadsheet files")
     (description
-     "libxls is a C library which can read Excel (xls) files since Excel 97 (the BIFF8 format).
-libxls cannot write Excel files.")
+     "libxls is a C library to read .xls spreadsheet files in the binary OLE
+BIFF8 format as created by Excel 97 and later versions.  It cannot write them.
+
+This package also provides @command{xls2csv} to export Excel files to CSV.")
     (license license:bsd-2)))
 
 (define-public freexl