diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/libnfsidmap_0.25.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/libnfsidmap_0.25.bb
index f840d8b6b3..fcc9e87db5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/libnfsidmap_0.25.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/libnfsidmap_0.25.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "NFS id mapping library"
-DESCRIPTION = "NFS id mapping library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_3.01a17.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_3.01a17.bb
index 2ae3f4ad63..38de407e71 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_3.01a17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/cdrtools/cdrtools-native_3.01a17.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2004-2006, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.  All Rights Reserved
 # Released under the MIT license (see packages/COPYING)
 SUMMARY = "A set of tools for CD recording, including cdrecord"
-DESCRIPTION = "A set of tools for CD recording, including cdrecord"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & CDDL-1.0 & LGPLv2.1+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-native_1.79.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-native_1.79.bb
index c70e76dd81..e62369003e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-native_1.79.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-native_1.79.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "DSSSL stylesheets used to transform SGML and XML DocBook files"
-DESCRIPTION = "DSSSL stylesheets used to transform SGML and XML DocBook files"
 HOMEPAGE= "http://docbook.sourceforge.net"
 # Simple persmissive
 LICENSE = "DSSSL"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
index b7b85f059e..a6a7ddcbd9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2004-2006, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.  All Rights Reserved
 # Released under the MIT license (see packages/COPYING)
 SUMMARY = "DOS FAT Filesystem Utilities"
-DESCRIPTION = "DOS FAT Filesystem Utilities"
 
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-native_0.9.69.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-native_0.9.69.bb
index ba9c72e8c7..ea0ffcb921 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-native_0.9.69.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/linuxdoc-tools/linuxdoc-tools-native_0.9.69.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "Convert LinuxDoc SGML source into other formats"
-DESCRIPTION = "Convert LinuxDoc SGML source into other formats"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.debian.org/linuxdoc-tools"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=077ef64ec3ac257fb0d786531cf26931"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb
index fbf9e771df..fe03b8288a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "Qemu helper scripts"
-DESCRIPTION = "Qemu helper scripts"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "nativesdk-qemu"
 PR = "r9"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/sgmlspl/sgmlspl-native_1.03ii.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgmlspl/sgmlspl-native_1.03ii.bb
index 1b612c0f80..be03fc566d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/sgmlspl/sgmlspl-native_1.03ii.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/sgmlspl/sgmlspl-native_1.03ii.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "A simple post-processor for SGMLS and NSGMLS"
-DESCRIPTION = "A simple post-processor for SGMLS and NSGMLS"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/src/DMEGG/SGMLSpm-1.03ii/DOC/HTML/SGMLSpm/sgmlspm.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc
index 62295b73ca..cb5b1a780c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cups/cups.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "An Internet printing system for Unix"
-DESCRIPTION = "An Internet printing system for Unix."
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2"
 DEPENDS = "gnutls libpng jpeg dbus dbus-glib zlib libusb"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.15.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.15.bb
index b6aa882ed1..b24188ff4b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/grep/grep_2.15.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "GNU grep utility"
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU grep utility"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grep/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grep"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bb
index 4a1f79f8e5..9d2ca4d5d6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "Provider of the machine specific securetty file"
-DESCRIPTION = "Provider of the machine specific securetty file"
 SECTION = "base utils"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb
index d379c1fdd7..697569c47e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-sysroot_4.1.4.3.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "Shadow utils requirements for useradd.bbclass"
-DESCRIPTION = "Shadow utils requirements for useradd.bbclass"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30580"
 SECTION = "base utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
index 5ab978ac51..33ecc7db40 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tools to change and administer password and group data"
-DESCRIPTION = "Tools to change and administer password and group data"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30580"
 SECTION = "base utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-lsb4/perl/libdumpvalue-perl_1.17.bb b/meta/recipes-lsb4/perl/libdumpvalue-perl_1.17.bb
index c18bc1175f..1125e140b7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-lsb4/perl/libdumpvalue-perl_1.17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-lsb4/perl/libdumpvalue-perl_1.17.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "Perl module for provides screen dump of Perl data."
-DESCRIPTION = "Perl module for provides screen dump of Perl data."
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Dumpvalue/"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.0.21.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.0.21.bb
index 2fbe65968f..5a1ff3b1b0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.0.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libevent/libevent_2.0.21.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 SUMMARY = "An asynchronous event notification library"
-DESCRIPTION = "An asynchronous event notification library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libevent.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=50884&atid=461322"
 SECTION = "libs"