diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3707d8854499291a7de0d27b7f1bfe0b1d3ef7e8..6f19b0bd736bb8a32289c6b1157742efb168f865 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Depends: git,
          ${shlibs:Depends}
 Recommends: mr (>= 1.07),
             ssh-client
-Description: Version Control System for $HOME (based on git)
+Description: Version Control System for $HOME - multiple Git repositories in $HOME
  vcsh allows you to have several git repositories, all maintaining their working
  trees in $HOME without clobbering each other. That, in turn, means you can have
  one repository per config set (zsh, vim, ssh, etc), picking and choosing which