diff --git a/dev-java/bcel/metadata.xml b/dev-java/bcel/metadata.xml
index 5d226489e06c2..fedca9bbcd0ca 100644
--- a/dev-java/bcel/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-java/bcel/metadata.xml
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@
     <name>Java</name>
   </maintainer>
   <longdescription lang="en">
- This is the main Reference implementation of the BCEL JavaClass API.
- The Byte Code Engineering Library (formerly known as JavaClass) is intended 
- to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate 
- (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class). Classes are represented 
- by objects which contain all the symbolic information of the given class: 
- methods, fields and byte code instructions, in particular.
-</longdescription>
+  This is the main Reference implementation of the BCEL JavaClass API.
+  The Byte Code Engineering Library (formerly known as JavaClass) is intended
+  to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate
+  (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class). Classes are represented
+  by objects which contain all the symbolic information of the given class:
+  methods, fields and byte code instructions, in particular.
+  </longdescription>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">apache/commons-bcel</remote-id>
   </upstream>