diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
index db32666..d3e1dfd 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "An sh-compatible command language interpreter"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html"
+DESCRIPTION = "Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation of the IEEE POSIX and Open Group shell specification with interactive command line editing, job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as history substitution and brace expansion, and a slew of other features."
 SECTION = "base/shell"
 
 DEPENDS = "ncurses bison-native virtual/libiconv"