diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.48.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.48.bb
index d8bbebd..a12738d 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.48.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap_2.48.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities"
+DESCRIPTION = "A library providing the API to access POSIX capabilities. \
+These allow giving various kinds of specific privileges to individual \
+users, without giving them full root permissions."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/"
-
 # no specific GPL version required
 LICENSE = "BSD | GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://License;md5=3f84fd6f29d453a56514cb7e4ead25f1"