diff --git a/attr.changes b/attr.changes
index 2db8973..a2b49ef 100644
--- a/attr.changes
+++ b/attr.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep 11 09:50:05 UTC 2018 - dmueller@suse.com
+
+- update description for libattr-devel-static to make it less
+  boilerplate
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep  5 13:12:14 UTC 2018 - schwab@suse.de
 
diff --git a/attr.spec b/attr.spec
index 9f5298f..6f304ed 100644
--- a/attr.spec
+++ b/attr.spec
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ Provides:       libattr-devel:%{_libdir}/libattr.a
 Requires:       libattr-devel = %version
 
 %description -n libattr-devel-static
-This package contains the static library of libattr which is needed to develop
-statically linked programs which make use of extended attributes.
+This package contains the static library of libattr which is needed for
+staticallly linking to programes that make use of extended attributes.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q