diff --git a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-1.1.4.ebuild b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-1.1.4.ebuild
index ce1aeea9216db..c663f08d37e61 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-1.1.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libnl/libnl-1.1.4.ebuild
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
 EAPI=5
 inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="A collection of libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces"
+DESCRIPTION="Libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/files/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"