diff --git a/python-billiard.changes b/python-billiard.changes
index 8f86161..28a7923 100644
--- a/python-billiard.changes
+++ b/python-billiard.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Jun  2 06:57:27 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Adjust description grammar. Drop filler wording.
+
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 Sun Feb 10 13:31:32 UTC 2019 - John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
 
diff --git a/python-billiard.spec b/python-billiard.spec
index 3ba9841..ff6bd3b 100644
--- a/python-billiard.spec
+++ b/python-billiard.spec
@@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description
 billiard is a fork of the Python 2.7 multiprocessing package. The
-multiprocessing package itself is a renamed and updated version of R Oudkerk's
-pyprocessing package. This standalone variant is intended to be compatible with
-Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw it's fixes/improvements from python-trunk.
+multiprocessing package itself is a renamed and updated version of
+R. Oudkerk's pyprocessing package. This standalone variant is
+compatible with Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw its
+fixes/improvements from python-trunk.
 
 %description -n %{name}-doc
 Documentation and help files for %{name}.