diff --git a/qalculate.changes b/qalculate.changes
index 05f9573..1480e0b 100644
--- a/qalculate.changes
+++ b/qalculate.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 19 10:43:13 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Trim filler words from description.
+- Remove unused .la files.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 12 20:36:48 UTC 2017 - fabian@ritter-vogt.de
 
diff --git a/qalculate.spec b/qalculate.spec
index 1832646..b33869f 100644
--- a/qalculate.spec
+++ b/qalculate.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 Name:           qalculate
 Version:        0.9.10
 Release:        0
-Summary:        Powerful Calulator application
+Summary:        Multi-purpose desktop calulator application
 License:        GPL-2.0+
 Group:          Productivity/Scientific/Math
 Url:            https://qalculate.github.io/
@@ -38,11 +38,10 @@ BuildRequires:  readline-devel
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
-Qalculate! is a modern multi-purpose desktop calculator for GNU/Linux. It is
-small and simple to use but with much power and versatility underneath.
-Features include customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting,
-and a graphical interface that uses a one-line fault-tolerant expression entry
-(although it supports optional traditional buttons).
+Qalculate is a multi-purpose desktop calculator. Features include
+customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting, and a
+graphical interface that uses a one-line fault-tolerant expression
+entry (although it supports optional traditional buttons).
 This is the commandline interface, named qalc.
 
 %package -n %{libname}%{major}
@@ -52,11 +51,10 @@ Suggests:       %{name}
 Provides:       %{libname} = %{version}
 
 %description -n %{libname}%{major}
-Qalculate! is a modern multi-purpose desktop calculator for GNU/Linux. It is
-small and simple to use but with much power and versatility underneath.
-Features include customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting,
-and a graphical interface that uses a one-line fault-tolerant expression entry
-(although it supports optional traditional buttons).
+Qalculate is a multi-purpose desktop calculator. Features include
+customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting, and a
+graphical interface that uses a one-line fault-tolerant expression
+entry.
 This is the shared library package.
 
 %package -n %{libname}-devel
@@ -68,7 +66,7 @@ Requires:       glib2-devel
 Requires:       libxml2-devel
 
 %description -n %{libname}-devel
-This package contains the header files, static libraries and development
+This package contains the header files and development
 documentation for %{libname}. If you like to develop programs using %{libname},
 you will need to install %{libname}-devel.
 
@@ -82,6 +80,7 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %install
 %make_install
 %find_lang libqalculate
+rm -f "%{buildroot}/%{_libdir}"/*.la
 
 %post -n %{libname}%{major} -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n %{libname}%{major} -p /sbin/ldconfig
@@ -101,7 +100,6 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 %{_includedir}/%{libname}
 %{_libdir}/%{libname}.so
-%{_libdir}/%{libname}.la
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/%{libname}.pc
 
 %changelog