diff --git a/python-vcversioner-rpmlintrc b/python-vcversioner-rpmlintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a4c72a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python-vcversioner-rpmlintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# rpmlint cannot distinguish so-called proper nouns
+addFilter("summary-not-capitalized")
diff --git a/python-vcversioner.changes b/python-vcversioner.changes
index 28e9207..b9ae5b3 100644
--- a/python-vcversioner.changes
+++ b/python-vcversioner.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Dec 18 23:22:32 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Use noun phrase in summary. Trim rhetorics from description.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec  4 12:55:46 UTC 2018 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-vcversioner.spec b/python-vcversioner.spec
index 1274f6c..847b2d2 100644
--- a/python-vcversioner.spec
+++ b/python-vcversioner.spec
@@ -20,12 +20,13 @@
 Name:           python-vcversioner
 Version:        2.16.0.0
 Release:        0
-Summary:        Use version control tags to discover version numbers
+Summary:        setup.py extension for deriving versions from SCM tags
 License:        ISC
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/habnabit/vcversioner
 Source0:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/v/vcversioner/vcversioner-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/habnabit/vcversioner/%{version}/COPYING
+Source9:        %{name}-rpmlintrc
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 %python_subpackages
 
 %description
-Elevator pitch: you can write a setup.py with no version information
+A setup.py file can be written with no version information
 specified, and vcversioner will find a recent, properly-formatted
 VCS tag and extract a version from it.