diff --git a/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1-r1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1-r1.ebuild
index d796576e4e887..c735fb3f900f4 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="hocon.gemspec"
 
 inherit ruby-fakegem
 
-DESCRIPTION="This is a port of the Typesafe Config library to Ruby."
+DESCRIPTION="This is a port of the Typesafe Config library to Ruby"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-hocon"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-hocon/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
 RUBY_S="ruby-hocon-${PV}"
diff --git a/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1.ebuild
index b7768a518f89a..3cfb650fd657a 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/hocon/hocon-1.3.1.ebuild
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="hocon.gemspec"
 
 inherit ruby-fakegem
 
-DESCRIPTION="This is a port of the Typesafe Config library to Ruby."
+DESCRIPTION="This is a port of the Typesafe Config library to Ruby"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-hocon"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-hocon/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
 RUBY_S="ruby-hocon-${PV}"