diff --git a/netpbm.changes b/netpbm.changes
index ba5f5d7..0941841 100644
--- a/netpbm.changes
+++ b/netpbm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec 31 22:08:29 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Trim filler wording from descriptions.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec 31 17:12:02 UTC 2018 - Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/netpbm.spec b/netpbm.spec
index a3bc215..b955387 100644
--- a/netpbm.spec
+++ b/netpbm.spec
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 Name:           netpbm
 Version:        10.85.0
 Release:        0
-Summary:        A Powerful Graphics Conversion Package
+Summary:        A Graphics Conversion Package
 License:        BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND IJG AND MIT AND SUSE-Public-Domain
 Group:          Productivity/Graphics/Convertors
 Url:            http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
@@ -50,15 +50,16 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(x11)
 Provides:       pbmplus
 
 %description
-The latest version of the Portable Bitmap Plus Utilities. This large
-package, which is by now available for all hardware platforms, provides
-tools for graphics conversion. Using these tools, images can be
-converted from virtually any format into any other format. A few of the
-supported formats include: GIF, PC-Paintbrush, IFF ILBM, Gould Scanner
-file, MTV ray tracer, Atari Degas .pi1 and .pi3, Macintosh PICT, HP
-Paintjet file, QRT raytracer, AUTOCAD slide, Atari Spectrum (compressed
-and uncompressed), Andrew Toolkit raster object, and many more. On top
-of that, man pages are included for all tools.
+These are the Portable Bitmap Plus Utilities.
+
+This package provides tools for graphics conversion. Using these
+tools, images can be converted from virtually any format into any
+other format. A few of the supported formats include: GIF,
+PC-Paintbrush, IFF ILBM, Gould Scanner file, MTV ray tracer, Atari
+Degas .pi1 and .pi3, Macintosh PICT, HP Paintjet file, QRT raytracer,
+AUTOCAD slide, Atari Spectrum (compressed and uncompressed), Andrew
+Toolkit raster object, and many more. On top of that, man pages are
+included for all tools.
 
 %package -n libnetpbm%{libmaj}
 Summary:        Libraries for the NetPBM (NetPortableBitmap) Graphic Formats
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ found in the netpbm package. The sources are contained in the netpbm
 source package.
 
 %package -n libnetpbm-devel
-Summary:        Libraries for the NetPBM Graphic Formats - files mandatory for development
+Summary:        Header files for the NetPBM libraries
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       libnetpbm%{libmaj} = %{version}