diff --git a/python-bitstring.changes b/python-bitstring.changes
index 67eeb42..03b8ce0 100644
--- a/python-bitstring.changes
+++ b/python-bitstring.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec 27 13:55:35 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Trim filler words from description.
+
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 Wed Oct 18 16:42:21 UTC 2017 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python-bitstring.spec b/python-bitstring.spec
index fff22a2..39e7a90 100644
--- a/python-bitstring.spec
+++ b/python-bitstring.spec
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 Name:           python-bitstring
 Version:        3.1.5
 Release:        0
-Summary:        Simple construction, analysis and modification of binary data
+Summary:        Construction, analysis and modification of binary data
 License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Url:            https://github.com/scott-griffiths/bitstring
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 %python_subpackages
 
 %description
-Bitstring is a pure Python module designed to help make
-the creation and analysis of binary data as simple and natural as possible.
+Bitstring is a pure Python module to aid
+the creation and analysis of binary data.
 
 Bitstrings can be constructed from integers (big and little endian), hex,
 octal, binary, strings or files. They can be sliced, joined, reversed,
-inserted into, overwritten, etc. with simple functions or slice notation.
+inserted into, overwritten, etc. with functions or slice notation.
 They can also be read from, searched and replaced, and navigated in,
 similar to a file or stream.