diff --git a/dev-util/visualvm/metadata.xml b/dev-util/visualvm/metadata.xml
index d9f28df8af965..9ef97ae66fd09 100644
--- a/dev-util/visualvm/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/visualvm/metadata.xml
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@
 	<email>java@gentoo.org</email>
 	<name>Java</name>
 </maintainer>
-<longdescription>The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from VisualVM. </longdescription>
+<longdescription>The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from VisualVM.</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-util/visualvm/visualvm-1.3.8-r1.ebuild b/dev-util/visualvm/visualvm-1.3.8-r1.ebuild
index 95b49586df6d9..911a74a645a5b 100644
--- a/dev-util/visualvm/visualvm-1.3.8-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/visualvm/visualvm-1.3.8-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI="5"
 
 inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Integrates commandline JDK tools and profiling capabilites"
+DESCRIPTION="Integrates commandline JDK tools and profiling capabilities"
 HOMEPAGE="http://visualvm.java.net/"
 SRC_URI="https://java.net/downloads/visualvm/release138/visualvm_138-src.tar.gz"