diff --git a/dev-cpp/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp-0.5.3.ebuild b/dev-cpp/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp-0.5.3.ebuild
index 70eace3a9956e..f90f9773b85cf 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp-0.5.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp-0.5.3.ebuild
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
-EAPI=5
+EAPI=6
 
 inherit cmake-utils
 
-DESCRIPTION="A YAML parser and emitter in C++"
+DESCRIPTION="YAML parser and emitter in C++"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/jbeder/${PN}/archive/release-${PV}.tar.gz"