treewide: Remove indefinite article from meta.description

nix run nixpkgs#silver-searcher -- -G '\.nix$' -0l 'description.*"[Aa]n?' pkgs \
  | xargs -0 nix run nixpkgs#gnused -- -i '' -Ee 's/(description.*")[Aa]n? (.)/\1\U\2/'

19 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/QuadProgpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/QuadProgpp/default.nix
index f67d68d768a0f..dfd33ed603afc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/QuadProgpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/QuadProgpp/default.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A C++ library for Quadratic Programming";
+    description = "C++ library for Quadratic Programming";
     longDescription = ''
       QuadProg++ is a C++ library for Quadratic Programming which implements
       the Goldfarb-Idnani active-set dual method.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/bonmin/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/bonmin/default.nix
index 2bbd698f7fa7b..272d13b1711ec 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/bonmin/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/bonmin/default.nix
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "An open-source code for solving general MINLP (Mixed Integer NonLinear Programming) problems";
+    description = "Open-source code for solving general MINLP (Mixed Integer NonLinear Programming) problems";
     mainProgram = "bonmin";
     homepage = "https://github.com/coin-or/Bonmin";
     license = licenses.epl10;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/cholmod-extra/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/cholmod-extra/default.nix
index 311ffefcfaad5..88053a41af69e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/cholmod-extra/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/cholmod-extra/default.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/jluttine/cholmod-extra";
-    description = "A set of additional routines for SuiteSparse CHOLMOD Module";
+    description = "Set of additional routines for SuiteSparse CHOLMOD Module";
     license = with licenses; [ gpl2Plus ];
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ jluttine ];
     platforms = with platforms; unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/clblas/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/clblas/default.nix
index dfa157d05d655..e5ad0e3e63d9c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/clblas/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/clblas/default.nix
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/clMathLibraries/clBLAS";
-    description = "A software library containing BLAS functions written in OpenCL";
+    description = "Software library containing BLAS functions written in OpenCL";
     longDescription = ''
       This package contains a library of BLAS functions on top of OpenCL.
     '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ecos/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ecos/default.nix
index b60bd1fe76c11..73874641e477e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ecos/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ecos/default.nix
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A lightweight conic solver for second-order cone programming";
+    description = "Lightweight conic solver for second-order cone programming";
     homepage = "https://www.embotech.com/ECOS";
     downloadPage = "https://github.com/embotech/ecos/releases";
     license = licenses.gpl3;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/faiss/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/faiss/default.nix
index 25d6542f8da1b..aedb240caadd7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/faiss/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/faiss/default.nix
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   };
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors by Facebook Research";
+    description = "Library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors by Facebook Research";
     mainProgram = "demo_ivfpq_indexing";
     homepage = "https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss";
     license = licenses.mit;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ipopt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ipopt/default.nix
index 286a630f4b411..ac04711ff71f8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ipopt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/ipopt/default.nix
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A software package for large-scale nonlinear optimization";
+    description = "Software package for large-scale nonlinear optimization";
     homepage = "https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt";
     license = licenses.epl10;
     platforms = platforms.unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/lcalc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/lcalc/default.nix
index f6603f7d8fb82..ebab7c00809ad 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/lcalc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/lcalc/default.nix
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://gitlab.com/sagemath/lcalc";
-    description = "A program for calculating with L-functions";
+    description = "Program for calculating with L-functions";
     mainProgram = "lcalc";
     license = with licenses; [ gpl2 ];
     maintainers = teams.sage.members;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/libamplsolver/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/libamplsolver/default.nix
index cbcc9ce766db7..f74808462ae1d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/libamplsolver/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/libamplsolver/default.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A library of routines that help solvers work with AMPL";
+    description = "Library of routines that help solvers work with AMPL";
     homepage = "https://ampl.com/netlib/ampl/";
     license = [ licenses.mit ];
     platforms = platforms.unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/openspecfun/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/openspecfun/default.nix
index 53a613522bb05..4084aa83a20a4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/openspecfun/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/openspecfun/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ gfortran ];
 
   meta = {
-    description = "A collection of special mathematical functions";
+    description = "Collection of special mathematical functions";
     homepage = "https://github.com/JuliaLang/openspecfun";
     license = lib.licenses.mit;
     maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.ttuegel ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osi/default.nix
index 485c5322cacd9..45d5fc5b1f9b5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osi/default.nix
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   passthru = { inherit withGurobi withCplex; };
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "An abstract base class to a generic linear programming (LP) solver";
+    description = "Abstract base class to a generic linear programming (LP) solver";
     homepage = "https://github.com/coin-or/Osi";
     license = licenses.epl20;
     platforms = platforms.unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osqp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osqp/default.nix
index bf22e1d74d931..d308302e2c9f3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osqp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/osqp/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "A quadratic programming solver using operator splitting";
+    description = "Quadratic programming solver using operator splitting";
     homepage = "https://osqp.org";
     license = licenses.asl20;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ taktoa ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/parmetis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/parmetis/default.nix
index db70bf8dd7a4b..5023390a182cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/parmetis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/parmetis/default.nix
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "An MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning unstructured graphs, meshes, and for computing fill-reducing orderings of sparse matrices";
+    description = "MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning unstructured graphs, meshes, and for computing fill-reducing orderings of sparse matrices";
     homepage = "http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview";
     platforms = platforms.all;
     license = licenses.unfree;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/planarity/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/planarity/default.nix
index 196ee5de576b9..21791267e1aec 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/planarity/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/planarity/default.nix
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/graph-algorithms/edge-addition-planarity-suite";
-    description = "A library for implementing graph algorithms";
+    description = "Library for implementing graph algorithms";
     mainProgram = "planarity";
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = teams.sage.members;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.2.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.2.nix
index b8ce3eca888ca..c87bc4d31a8c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.2.nix
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html";
-    description = "A suite of sparse matrix algorithms";
+    description = "Suite of sparse matrix algorithms";
     license = with licenses; [ bsd2 gpl2Plus lgpl21Plus ];
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ ttuegel ];
     platforms = with platforms; unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.4.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.4.nix
index cbc24b1546565..f47b5c0ce818f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/4.4.nix
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html";
-    description = "A suite of sparse matrix algorithms";
+    description = "Suite of sparse matrix algorithms";
     license = with licenses; [ bsd2 gpl2Plus lgpl21Plus ];
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ ttuegel ];
     platforms = with platforms; unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix
index 9561cf2ed7795..fcfd9b56a1b14 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/suitesparse/default.nix
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html";
-    description = "A suite of sparse matrix algorithms";
+    description = "Suite of sparse matrix algorithms";
     license = with licenses; [ bsd2 gpl2Plus lgpl21Plus ];
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ ttuegel ];
     platforms = with platforms; unix;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/superlu/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/superlu/default.nix
index f99e86ffe478c..4f52c2d6c507a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/superlu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/superlu/default.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/";
     license = "http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/License.txt";
-    description = "A library for the solution of large, sparse, nonsymmetric systems of linear equations";
+    description = "Library for the solution of large, sparse, nonsymmetric systems of linear equations";
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/tensorflow-lite/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/tensorflow-lite/default.nix
index 139540b7f1f37..4ecd08d103fac 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/tensorflow-lite/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/tensorflow-lite/default.nix
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ buildBazelPackage rec {
   configurePlatforms = [];
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "An open source deep learning framework for on-device inference";
+    description = "Open source deep learning framework for on-device inference";
     homepage = "https://www.tensorflow.org/lite";
     license = licenses.asl20;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ mschwaig cpcloud ];