diff --git a/alsa.changes b/alsa.changes
index b16eb07..522719f 100644
--- a/alsa.changes
+++ b/alsa.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Mar 17 18:27:59 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Replace unspecific historic boilerplate summaries,
+  and replace $RPM_* shell vars.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan  7 15:32:13 CET 2019 - tiwai@suse.de
 
diff --git a/alsa.spec b/alsa.spec
index 1a02cb7..6d56c84 100644
--- a/alsa.spec
+++ b/alsa.spec
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ This package contains the ALSA init scripts to start the sound system
 on your Linux box.  To set it up, run yast2 or alsaconf.
 
 %package devel
-Summary:        Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Development
+Summary:        Header files for ALSA development
 License:        LGPL-2.1-or-later
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       glibc-devel
@@ -88,10 +88,10 @@ Provides:       alsadev = %{version}
 
 %description devel
 This package contains all necessary include files and libraries needed
-to develop applications that require these.
+to develop applications that require ALSA.
 
 %package docs
-Summary:        Additional Package Documentation
+Summary:        Additional Package Documentation for ALSA
 License:        GPL-2.0-or-later
 Group:          Documentation/Other
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1110
@@ -197,15 +197,15 @@ install -c -m 0755 %{SOURCE41} %{buildroot}/sbin
 #
 mkdir -p -m 755 %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
 mkdir -p -m 755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig
-install -m 644 $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/sysconfig.sound %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
+install -m 644 %{_sourcedir}/sysconfig.sound %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
 %if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1310
-install -m 644 $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/sysconfig.joystick %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
+install -m 644 %{_sourcedir}/sysconfig.joystick %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
 %endif
 #
 # documents
 #
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}
-cp $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/README* %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}
+cp %{_sourcedir}/README* %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}
 %if 0%{?suse_version} < 1200
 cp COPYING %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}
 %endif