diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.17.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.17.bb
index e905eed..addf652 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.17.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.17.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Line-oriented text editor"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/"
+DESCRIPTION = "GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands."
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0c7051aef9219dc7237f206c5c4179a7 \