More description fixes

* Remove package name
* Start with upper case letter
* Remove trailing period

Also reword some descriptions and move some long descriptions to
longDescription.

I'm not touching generated packages.

7 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/falcon/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/falcon/default.nix
index 9800e895400c..0b4bfacb6de5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/falcon/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/falcon/default.nix
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ rec {
 
   name = "falcon-" + version;
   meta = {
-    description = "A programming language. Has macros and syntax at once.";
+    description = "Programming language with macros and syntax at once";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/hiphopvm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/hiphopvm/default.nix
index 57e3e93c6466..c18c81caff05 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/hiphopvm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/hiphopvm/default.nix
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   patches = [./tbb.patch];
 
   meta = {
-    description = "HipHop is a high performance PHP toolchain.";
+    description = "High performance PHP toolchain";
     homepage = https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php;
     platforms = ["x86_64-linux"];
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix
index a95e4e4c35ea..13f7964769ca 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-4/default.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.lua.org";
-    description = "Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.";
+    description = "Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language";
     longDescription = ''
       Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data
       description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.0.3.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.0.3.nix
index ff2a81401910..eae2d82d5d0a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.0.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.0.3.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.lua.org";
-    description = "Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.";
+    description = "Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language";
     longDescription = ''
       Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data
       description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.1.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.1.nix
index bdbf2d106bfb..2923a8f960d1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.1.nix
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.lua.org";
-    description = "Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.";
+    description = "Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language";
     longDescription = ''
       Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data
       description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.2.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.2.nix
index bd5a868c2d5f..5b4c2459872e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/5.2.nix
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.lua.org";
-    description = "Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.";
+    description = "Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language";
     longDescription = ''
       Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data
       description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/racket/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/racket/default.nix
index ddcf26340397..f45c96d2805d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/racket/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/racket/default.nix
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = {
-    description = "A programming language derived from Scheme (formerly called PLT Scheme).";
+    description = "Programming language derived from Scheme (formerly called PLT Scheme)";
     longDescription = ''
       Racket (formerly called PLT Scheme) is a programming language derived
       from Scheme. The Racket project has four primary components: the