diff --git a/scala.changes b/scala.changes
index d506865..984ea22 100644
--- a/scala.changes
+++ b/scala.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Mar 23 08:27:59 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Make scriptlets POSIX sh compatible.
+- Trim filler wording from descriptions.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Mar  1 06:35:22 UTC 2019 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/scala.spec b/scala.spec
index 10b39e3..3408233 100644
--- a/scala.spec
+++ b/scala.spec
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ Obsoletes:      %{base_name}-bootstrap
 %endif
 
 %description
-Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common
-programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly
-integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. It is also
-fully interoperable with Java.
+Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express
+common programming patterns in a concise and type-safe way. It
+integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. It
+is also interoperable with Java.
 
 %package apidoc
 Summary:        Documentation for the Scala programming language
@@ -114,16 +114,16 @@ object-oriented and functional programming. This package provides
 reference and API documentation for the Scala programming language.
 
 %package swing
-Summary:        The swing library for the scala programming languages
+Summary:        The swing library for the Scala programming languages
 Group:          Development/Libraries/Java
 Requires:       java >= 1.7
 Requires:       scala = %{version}-%{release}
 
 %description swing
-This package contains the swing library for the scala programming languages.
-This library is required to develop GUI-related applications in scala.
+This package contains the swing library for the Scala programming languages.
+This library is required to develop GUI-related applications in Scala.
 The release provided by this package is not the original version from upstream
-because this version is not compatible with JDK-1.7.
+because this version is not compatible with JDK 1.7.
 
 %package -n ant-%{name}
 Summary:        Development files for Scala
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Requires:       scala = %{version}-%{release}
 %description -n ant-%{name}
 Scala is a general purpose programming language for the JVM that blends
 object-oriented and functional programming. This package enables support for
-the scala ant tasks.
+the Scala ant tasks.
 
 %prep
 
@@ -274,15 +274,15 @@ install -d %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
 install -p -m 644 build/scaladoc/manual/man/man1/* %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
 
 %post
-touch --no-create %{_datadir}/mime/packages &> /dev/null || :
+touch --no-create %{_datadir}/mime/packages >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
 
 %postun
 if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
-update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
+update-mime-database %{_datadir}/mime >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
 fi
 
 %posttrans
-update-mime-database %{?fedora:-n} %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null || :
+update-mime-database %{?fedora:-n} %{_datadir}/mime >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
 
 %files -f .mfiles
 %{_bindir}/*