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@@ -248,11 +248,9 @@ projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/")
(synopsis "Per-file local revision control system")
(description
- "The GNU Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple revisions of
-files. RCS automates the storing, retrieval, logging, identification, and
-merging of revisions. RCS is useful for text that is revised frequently,
-including source code, programs, documentation, graphics, papers, and form
-letters.")
+ "RCS is the Revision Control System. It is used to manage multiple
+revisions of files. Revisions are stored as reverse differences generated by
+GNU Diffutils. RCS also handles identifying and merging revisions.")
(license gpl3+)))
(define-public cvs
@@ -300,6 +298,10 @@ RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages.")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/")
(synopsis "Version-control-agnostic ChangeLog diff and commit tool")
(description
- "vc-dwim is a version-control-agnostic ChangeLog diff and commit
-tool. vc-chlog is a helper tool for writing GNU-style ChangeLog entries.")
+ "The vc-dwim package contains two tools, \"vc-dwim\" and \"vc-chlog\".
+vc-dwim is a tool that simplifies the task of maintaining a ChangeLog and
+using version control at the same time, for example by printing a reminder
+when a file change has been described in the ChangeLog but the file has not
+been added to the VCS. vc-chlog scans changed files and generates
+standards-compliant ChangeLog entries based on the changes that it detects.")
(license gpl3+)))