diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
index 4ae7a78..2278541 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tools to change and administer password and group data"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow"
+DESCRIPTION = "${SUMMARY}"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues"
 SECTION = "base/utils"
 LICENSE = "BSD | Artistic-1.0"