diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb
index 432953a..cfa6561 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.9.4.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "An implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://man-db.nongnu.org/"
+DESCRIPTION = "man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases."
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://docs/COPYING.LIB;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 \
                     file://docs/COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"