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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