8 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
index 61f906d04f..80086c29a3 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
@@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ mode-line.")
     (propagated-inputs
      `(("emacs-rich-minority" ,emacs-rich-minority)))
     (home-page "http://github.com/Malabarba/smart-mode-line")
-    (synopsis "Color-coded smart mode-line.")
+    (synopsis "Color-coded smart mode-line")
     (description
      "Smart Mode Line is a mode-line theme for Emacs.  It aims to be easy to
 read from small to large monitors by using colors, a prefix feature, and smart
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnustep.scm b/gnu/packages/gnustep.scm
index 30574fca18..6c522866c9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnustep.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnustep.scm
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ display, and can run a user-specified program on mouse click.")
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
     (home-page "http://www.improbability.net/")
-    (synopsis "Display flames to represent CPU usage, memory usage, etc.")
+    (synopsis "Display flames to represent resource usage")
     (description
      "wmfire is an applet for Window Maker that can monitor the average cpu
 load, or individual cpu load on SMP computers.  Additionally it can monitor the
diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
index f41157332d..87628b559d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
@@ -6205,7 +6205,7 @@ extensions.")
      `(("ghc-cereal" ,ghc-cereal)
        ("ghc-network" ,ghc-network)))
     (home-page "https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-socks")
-    (synopsis "SOCKS proxy (version 5) implementation.")
+    (synopsis "SOCKS proxy (version 5) implementation")
     (description
      "This library provides a SOCKS proxy (version 5) implementation.")
     (license license:bsd-3)))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm b/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm
index dc7c27ed4a..74fbac2635 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/kde-frameworks.scm
@@ -112,6 +112,6 @@ lower level classes for interaction with the X Windowing System.")
      `(("extra-cmake-modules" ,extra-cmake-modules)
        ("qtbase" ,qtbase)))
     (home-page "https://community.kde.org/Frameworks")
-    (synopsis "Oxygen provides the standard icon theme for the KDE desktop.")
+    (synopsis "Oxygen provides the standard icon theme for the KDE desktop")
     (description "Oxygen icon theme for the KDE desktop")
     (license license:lgpl3+)))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/openstack.scm b/gnu/packages/openstack.scm
index a316af9666..6ae1275c96 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/openstack.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/openstack.scm
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
         ("python-testscenarios" ,python-testscenarios)
         ("python-testtools" ,python-testtools)))
     (home-page "https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/Projects/Bandit")
-    (synopsis "Security oriented static analyser for python code.")
+    (synopsis "Security oriented static analyser for python code")
     (description
       "Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
 To do this Bandit processes each file, builds an AST from it, and runs
diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
index 15fea525af..00e04ed037 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
@@ -5713,7 +5713,7 @@ a minimum of effort.")
      `(("perl-test-tester" ,perl-test-tester)
        ("perl-data-dump" ,perl-data-dump)))
     (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Trap")
-    (synopsis "Trap exit codes, exceptions, output, etc.")
+    (synopsis "Trap exit codes, exceptions, output, and so on")
     (description "This module is primarily (but not exclusively) for use in
 test scripts: A block eval configurable and extensible but by default trapping
 STDOUT, STDERR, warnings, exceptions, would-be exit codes, and return values
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 0a4cecaa9e..b5518b021f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -4997,7 +4997,7 @@ connection to each user.")
     (inputs
      `(("python-setuptools" ,python-setuptools)))
     (home-page "https://github.com/cython/backports_abc")
-    (synopsis "Backport of additions to the 'collections.abc' module.")
+    (synopsis "Backport of additions to the 'collections.abc' module")
     (description
      "Python-backports-abc provides a backport of additions to the
 'collections.abc' module in Python-3.5.")
@@ -5972,7 +5972,7 @@ responses, rather than doing any computation.")
     (native-inputs
      `(("python-setuptools" ,python-setuptools)))
     (home-page "https://github.com/pyca/cryptography")
-    (synopsis "Test vectors for the cryptography package.")
+    (synopsis "Test vectors for the cryptography package")
     (description
       "This package contains test vectors for the cryptography package.")
     ;; Distributed under either BSD-3 or ASL2.0
@@ -9271,7 +9271,7 @@ are optionally backed by a C extension built on librdkafka.")
           "02wjrpf001gjdjsaxxbzcwfg19crlk2dbddayrfc2v06f53yrcyw"))))
   (build-system python-build-system)
   (home-page "https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth")
-  (synopsis "Measure number of terminal column cells of wide-character codes.")
+  (synopsis "Measure number of terminal column cells of wide-character codes")
   (description "Wcwidth measures the number of terminal column cells of
 wide-character codes.  It is useful for those implementing a terminal emulator,
 or programs that carefully produce output to be interpreted by one.  It is a
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
index 877f229fe1..028b82daaf 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ruby.scm
@@ -4050,7 +4050,7 @@ associated records.")
        ("ruby-minitest-rg" ,ruby-minitest-rg)
        ("ruby-mocha" ,ruby-mocha)
        ("ruby-activesupport" ,ruby-activesupport)))
-    (synopsis "Test mocks for time-dependent functions.")
+    (synopsis "Test mocks for time-dependent functions")
     (description
      "Timecop provides \"time travel\" and \"time freezing\" capabilities,
 making it easier to test time-dependent code.  It provides a unified method to
@@ -4116,4 +4116,3 @@ inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Go, JavaScript, actors and classic concurrency
 patterns.")
     (home-page "http://www.concurrent-ruby.com")
     (license license:expat)))
-