diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.19.8.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.19.8.1.bb
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--- a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.19.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.19.8.1.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "Utilities and libraries for producing multi-lingual messages"
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU gettext is a set of tools that provides a framework to help other programs produce multi-lingual messages. These tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable and already translated strings."
+DESCRIPTION = "GNU gettext is a set of tools that provides a framework to help other programs produce multi-lingual messages. \
+These tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file \
+naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and \
+a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable and already translated strings."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & LGPL-2.1+"