diff --git a/attr.spec b/attr.spec
index 6ca7c2b..ff0efdb 100644
--- a/attr.spec
+++ b/attr.spec
@@ -86,10 +86,8 @@ Provides:       libattr-devel:%{_libdir}/libattr.a
 Requires:       libattr-devel = %version
 
 %description -n libattr-devel-static
-This package contains the libraries and header files needed to develop
-programs which make use of extended attributes. For Linux programs, the
-documented system call API is the recommended interface, but an SGI
-IRIX compatibility interface is also provided.
+This package contains the static library of libattr which is needed to develop
+statically linked programs which make use of extended attributes.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q