diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.0.0.1.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.0.0.1.bb
index 427726a9f1..2579134678 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.0.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.0.0.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # It has a lower and invalid version number in order not to be accidentally used by bitbake.
 # It is used for tests that require overlayed recipe files.
 
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU Aspell spell-checker"
+SUMMARY = "GNU Aspell spell-checker"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE="LGPLv2 | LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/hello-mod/hello-mod_0.1.bb b/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/hello-mod/hello-mod_0.1.bb
index 3136ae7f16..c40b393fa4 100644
--- a/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/hello-mod/hello-mod_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-skeleton/recipes-kernel/hello-mod/hello-mod_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "hello-world-mod tests the module.bbclass mechanism."
+SUMMARY = "Example of how to build an external Linux kernel module"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=12f884d2ae1ff87c09e5b7ccc2c4ca7e"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/acpid/acpid.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/acpid/acpid.inc
index a384265179..0341094c71 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/acpid/acpid.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/acpid/acpid.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A daemon for delivering ACPI events."
+SUMMARY = "A daemon for delivering ACPI events"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpid/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=33140&atid=407341"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/formfactor/formfactor_0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/formfactor/formfactor_0.0.bb
index c9b53a1a9f..b8d4fdad2e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/formfactor/formfactor_0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/formfactor/formfactor_0.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Device formfactor information"
+SUMMARY = "Device formfactor information"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb
index 466c073cc1..0208509c96 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/hostap/hostap-conf_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "PCMCIA-cs configuration files for wireless LAN cards based on Intersil's Prism2/2.5/3 chipset"
+SUMMARY = "PCMCIA-cs configuration files for wireless LAN cards based on Intersil's Prism2/2.5/3 chipset"
 SECTION = "kernel/modules"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc
index 0ef939e843..eafe82045c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Linux Kernel 2.6 Userland Utilities for the PCMCIA Subsystem"
+SUMMARY = "Linux kernel userland utilities for the PCMCIA subsystem"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html"
 SECTION = "kernel/userland"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/pointercal/pointercal_0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/pointercal/pointercal_0.0.bb
index c8233eaa2b..5029c4a9f9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/pointercal/pointercal_0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/pointercal/pointercal_0.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Touchscreen calibration data"
+SUMMARY = "Touchscreen calibration data"
 SECTION = "base"
 PR = "r11"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-cross_2013.07.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-cross_2013.07.bb
index 4b7fd24056..e6163972dc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-cross_2013.07.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils-cross_2013.07.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "U-boot bootloader fw_printenv/setenv utils"
+SUMMARY = "U-Boot bootloader fw_printenv/setenv utilities"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1707d6db1d42237583f50183a5651ecb"
 SECTION = "bootloader"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils_2013.07.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils_2013.07.bb
index be543431b3..14b09761e1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils_2013.07.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-fw-utils_2013.07.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "U-boot bootloader fw_printenv/setenv utils"
+SUMMARY = "U-Boot bootloader fw_printenv/setenv utilities"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1707d6db1d42237583f50183a5651ecb"
 SECTION = "bootloader"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-mkimage_2013.07.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-mkimage_2013.07.bb
index a1b1db9555..2ca6050bf9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-mkimage_2013.07.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-mkimage_2013.07.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "U-boot bootloader mkimage tool"
+SUMMARY = "U-Boot bootloader image creation tool"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1707d6db1d42237583f50183a5651ecb"
 SECTION = "bootloader"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
index 10a3cf82b4..f49bb5db1d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "U-Boot - the Universal Boot Loader"
+SUMMARY = "Universal Boot Loader for embedded devices"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/WebHome"
 SECTION = "bootloaders"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/bootloader"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb
index 37e3b1639b..aba44b4068 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbinit/usbinit.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Initscript to manage gadget Ethernet"
+SUMMARY = "Initscript for enabling USB gadget Ethernet"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYING.GPL;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/v86d/v86d_0.1.10.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/v86d/v86d_0.1.10.bb
index bce4f4e935..a8f1d08247 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/v86d/v86d_0.1.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/v86d/v86d_0.1.10.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "User support binary for the uvesafb kernel module"
+SUMMARY = "User support binary for the uvesafb kernel module"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/"
 
 # the copyright info is at the bottom of README, expect break
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc
index 3b55eb17f1..05d5ff00fc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/x-load/x-load.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "x-load bootloader loader"
+SUMMARY = "First level bootloader for OMAP SoCs"
 SECTION = "bootloaders"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/zaurusd/zaurusd_git.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/zaurusd/zaurusd_git.bb
index 7460337938..b1c0e282a1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/zaurusd/zaurusd_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/zaurusd/zaurusd_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Daemon to handle device specifc features."
+SUMMARY = "Daemon to handle device-specific features"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/bind/bind_9.8.1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/bind/bind_9.8.1.bb
index 5919c21b9f..19a9f056fa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/bind/bind_9.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/bind/bind_9.8.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "ISC Internet Domain Name Server"
+SUMMARY = "ISC Internet Domain Name Server"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-gnome_0.7.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-gnome_0.7.bb
index 2d422b2b2b..f69d78c449 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-gnome_0.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-gnome_0.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "gtk frontend for connman"
+SUMMARY = "GTK+ frontend for the ConnMan network connection manager"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://connman.net/"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb
index a2712c9b1a..5b8c700411 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libnss-mdns/libnss-mdns_0.10.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution"
+SUMMARY = "Name Service Switch module for Multicast DNS (zeroconf) name resolution"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
@@ -6,22 +6,24 @@ LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 
 DEPENDS = "avahi"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} = "avahi-daemon"
 PR = "r7"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/nss-mdns-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "03938f17646efbb50aa70ba5f99f51d7"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1e683c2e7c3921814706d62fbbd3e9cbf493a75fa00255e0e715508d8134fa6d"
+
 S = "${WORKDIR}/nss-mdns-${PV}"
 
 inherit autotools
 
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--libdir=${base_libdir} --disable-lynx --enable-avahi"
+
 # suppress warning, but don't bother with autonamer
 LEAD_SONAME = "libnss_mdns.so"
 DEBIANNAME_${PN} = "libnss-mdns"
 
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--libdir=${base_libdir} --disable-lynx --enable-avahi"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "avahi-daemon"
 
 pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
 	sed -e '/^hosts:/s/\s*\<mdns4\>//' \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/mobile-broadband-provider-info/mobile-broadband-provider-info_git.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/mobile-broadband-provider-info/mobile-broadband-provider-info_git.bb
index 43d99b5dbc..a0d18efd24 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/mobile-broadband-provider-info/mobile-broadband-provider-info_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/mobile-broadband-provider-info/mobile-broadband-provider-info_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Mobile Broadband Service Provider Database"
+SUMMARY = "Mobile Broadband Service Provider Database"
 SECTION = "network"
 LICENSE = "PD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=87964579b2a8ece4bc6744d2dc9a8b04"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/ocf-linux.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/ocf-linux.inc
index 4efdc2f6f9..d6cde9ac43 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/ocf-linux.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/ocf-linux.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Install required headers to enable OCF Linux support"
+SUMMARY = "Installs required headers for OCF-Linux crypto acceleration support"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;md5=493ffe65655667614cf24567adf22f11"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/portmap/portmap.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/portmap/portmap.inc
index 0dfa78caa8..7588341c8e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/portmap/portmap.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/portmap/portmap.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "RPC program number mapper."
+SUMMARY = "RPC program number mapper"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://neil.brown.name/portmap/"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp-dialin/ppp-dialin_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp-dialin/ppp-dialin_0.1.bb
index d239c20b21..a7943f3ab3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp-dialin/ppp-dialin_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp-dialin/ppp-dialin_0.1.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+SUMMARY = "Enables PPP dial-in through a serial connection"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-DESCRIPTION = "Enables PPP dial-in through a serial connection"
 DEPENDS = "ppp"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "ppp"
 PR = "r8"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp/ppp_2.4.5.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp/ppp_2.4.5.bb
index e951068181..52bab4fc43 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp/ppp_2.4.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/ppp/ppp_2.4.5.bb
@@ -81,11 +81,11 @@ FILES_${PN}-minconn  = "${libdir}/pppd/${PV}/minconn.so"
 FILES_${PN}-password = "${libdir}/pppd/${PV}/pass*.so"
 FILES_${PN}-l2tp     = "${libdir}/pppd/${PV}/*l2tp.so"
 FILES_${PN}-tools    = "${sbindir}/pppstats ${sbindir}/pppdump"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-oa       = "Plugin for PPP needed for PPP-over-ATM"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-oe       = "Plugin for PPP needed for PPP-over-Ethernet"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-radius   = "Plugin for PPP that are related to RADIUS"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-winbind  = "Plugin for PPP to authenticate against Samba or Windows"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-minconn  = "Plugin for PPP to specify a minimum connect time before the idle timeout applies"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-password = "Plugin for PPP to get passwords via a pipe"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-l2tp     = "Plugin for PPP for l2tp support"
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-tools    = "The pppdump and pppstats utitilities"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-oa       = "Plugin for PPP for PPP-over-ATM support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-oe       = "Plugin for PPP for PPP-over-Ethernet support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-radius   = "Plugin for PPP for RADIUS support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-winbind  = "Plugin for PPP to authenticate against Samba or Windows"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-minconn  = "Plugin for PPP to set a delay before the idle timeout applies"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-password = "Plugin for PPP to get passwords via a pipe"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-l2tp     = "Plugin for PPP for l2tp support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-tools    = "Additional tools for the PPP package"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-mission-control_5.16.0.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-mission-control_5.16.0.bb
index bdab9c17f6..0716780281 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-mission-control_5.16.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-mission-control_5.16.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Central control for Telepathy connection managers"
+SUMMARY = "Central control for Telepathy IM connection managers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mission-control.sourceforge.net/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-python_0.15.19.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-python_0.15.19.bb
index 5a02d81869..17167022b9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-python_0.15.19.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-python_0.15.19.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Telepathy framework - Python package"
+SUMMARY = "Telepathy IM framework - Python package"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb
index b4d34bb47c..3aef24ec4c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_29.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Tools for the Linux Standard Wireless Extension Subsystem"
+SUMMARY = "Tools for the Linux Standard Wireless Extension Subsystem"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & (LGPLv2.1 | MPL-1.1 | BSD)"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant-2.0.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant-2.0.inc
index ce669a1ffa..491dfbfaff 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant-2.0.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/wpa-supplicant/wpa-supplicant-2.0.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A Client for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)."
+SUMMARY = "Client for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://hostap.epitest.fi/bugz/"
 SECTION = "network"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb
index 93c782d393..fdb19ba503 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A simple tool to wait for a specific signal over DBus"
+SUMMARY = "A simple tool to wait for a specific signal over DBus"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/dbus-wait"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.18.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.18.bb
index 94af4c5f7a..c54e957bc3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.18.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-ptest_1.6.18.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "D-Bus test package, only used for D-bus functionality test."
+SUMMARY = "D-Bus test package (for D-bus functionality testing only)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://dbus.freedesktop.org"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "AFL-2 | GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.17.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.17.bb
index 1d3c22bf57..a099c18d50 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.17.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Cross locale generation tool for eglibc"
+SUMMARY = "Cross locale generation tool for eglibc"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.eglibc.org/home"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.18.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.18.bb
index 62296b5276..4e7e947512 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.18.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/cross-localedef-native_2.18.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Cross locale generation tool for eglibc"
+SUMMARY = "Cross locale generation tool for eglibc"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.eglibc.org/home"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb
index 63ef95b7e7..d7bc4446a8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A standalone native ldconfig build"
+SUMMARY = "A standalone native ldconfig build"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/feed-config/poky-feed-config-opkg_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/feed-config/poky-feed-config-opkg_1.0.bb
index 14f1d4194a..fb312f8151 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/feed-config/poky-feed-config-opkg_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/feed-config/poky-feed-config-opkg_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Poky example feed configuration"
+SUMMARY = "Poky example feed configuration"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 PR = "r2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb
index 6f9b4c21f1..0ede20b15d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-boot_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A live image init script"
+SUMMARY = "Extremely basic live image init script"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 SRC_URI = "file://init-boot.sh"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb
index a2c0813f30..861bec363f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "initramfs modular system"
+SUMMARY = "Modular initramfs system"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "busybox"
@@ -42,18 +42,18 @@ PACKAGES = "${PN}-base \
 
 FILES_${PN}-base = "/init /init.d/99-finish"
 
-DESCRIPTION_initramfs-module-mdev = "initramfs support for mdev"
+SUMMARY_initramfs-module-mdev = "initramfs support for mdev"
 RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-mdev = "${PN}-base"
 FILES_initramfs-module-mdev = "/init.d/01-mdev"
 
-DESCRIPTION_initramfs-module-udev = "initramfs support for udev"
+SUMMARY_initramfs-module-udev = "initramfs support for udev"
 RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-udev = "${PN}-base udev udev-utils"
 FILES_initramfs-module-udev = "/init.d/01-udev"
 
-DESCRIPTION_initramfs-module-e2fs = "initramfs support for ext4/ext3/ext2 filesystems"
+SUMMARY_initramfs-module-e2fs = "initramfs support for ext4/ext3/ext2 filesystems"
 RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-e2fs = "${PN}-base"
 FILES_initramfs-module-e2fs = "/init.d/10-e2fs"
 
-DESCRIPTION_initramfs-module-debug = "initramfs dynamic debug support"
+SUMMARY_initramfs-module-debug = "initramfs dynamic debug support"
 RDEPENDS_initramfs-module-debug = "${PN}-base"
 FILES_initramfs-module-debug = "/init.d/00-debug"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb
index 8626bb5b33..2d378e2101 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-boot_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A live image init script"
+SUMMARY = "Live image init script"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb
index 264931f9a3..7195dc2718 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install-efi_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A live image init script for grub-efi"
+SUMMARY = "Live image install script for grub-efi"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 SRC_URI = "file://init-install-efi.sh"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb
index 3a8836d5b9..7bf31c9cf8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-live-install_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A live image init script for grub"
+SUMMARY = "Live image install script for grub"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 SRC_URI = "file://init-install.sh"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.0.1.bb
index b2afc602a1..998a2d39b2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "This package contains keytable files and keyboard utilities"
+SUMMARY = "Keytable files and keyboard utilities"
 # everything minus console-fonts is GPLv2+
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a5fcc36121d93e1f69d96a313078c8b5"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb
index 41b87b5032..0a8dca20a2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-environment.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Package of environment files for SDK"
+SUMMARY = "Package of environment files for SDK"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58 \
                     file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-toolchain.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-toolchain.bb
index dccf394c10..6ec90aaa08 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-toolchain.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/meta-toolchain.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Meta package for building a installable toolchain"
+SUMMARY = "Meta package for building a installable toolchain"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 
 PR = "r7"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/package-index.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/package-index.bb
index 76bf331fc7..3cc1239bab 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/package-index.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/package-index.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Rebuild the package index"
+SUMMARY = "Rebuilds the package index"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb
index c8b5623bf5..57480b970b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-standalone-sdk-target.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Target packages for the standalone SDK"
+SUMMARY = "Target packages for the standalone SDK"
 PR = "r8"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb
index e4d93d2c88..a94be36d93 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-compat-units.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Units to make systemd work better with existing sysvinit scripts"
+SUMMARY = "Enhances systemd compatilibity with existing SysVinit scripts"
 
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
index 37c49b12d7..8db3d00fae 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Systemd serial config"
+SUMMARY = "Serial terminal support for systemd"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-systemctl-native.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-systemctl-native.bb
index 59405842e9..898c204518 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-systemctl-native.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-systemctl-native.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Wrapper to enable of systemd services"
+SUMMARY = "Wrapper for enabling systemd services"
 
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_208.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_208.bb
index 372e73d8e0..dcf68dcde3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_208.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_208.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Systemd a init replacement"
+SUMMARY = "System and service manager for Linux, replacing SysVinit"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1 & MIT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
index 05ba410441..a13d509e62 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Inittab for sysvinit"
+SUMMARY = "Inittab configuration for SysVinit"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb
index f2d5659e65..dd25f71530 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "System-V like init."
+SUMMARY = "System-V like init"
 DESCRIPTION = "This package is required to boot in most configurations.  It provides the /sbin/init program.  This is the first process started on boot, and the last process terminated before the system halts."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit/"
 SECTION = "base"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc
index 83411a968a..b528c00fd8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Advanced front-end for dpkg."
+SUMMARY = "Advanced front-end for dpkg"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+"
 SECTION = "base"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/cmake/cmake.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/cmake/cmake.inc
index 014ff5a750..69f4fe29b1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/cmake/cmake.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/cmake/cmake.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2005, Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV.  All Rights Reserved
 # Released under the MIT license (see packages/COPYING)
 
-DESCRIPTION = "A cross-platform, open-source make system"
+SUMMARY = "Cross-platform, open-source make system"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.cmake.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://public.kitware.com/Bug/my_view_page.php"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/desktop-file-utils/desktop-file-utils-native_0.22.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/desktop-file-utils/desktop-file-utils-native_0.22.bb
index 2a77642617..6f73564b4a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/desktop-file-utils/desktop-file-utils-native_0.22.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/desktop-file-utils/desktop-file-utils-native_0.22.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SECTION = "console/utils"
+SUMMARY = "Command line utilities for working with *.desktop files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils"
-DESCRIPTION = "command line utilities to work with *.desktop files"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb
index ee6aa6ab9b..3fc75fed6a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dmidecode/dmidecode_2.12.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table related utilities"
+SUMMARY = "DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table related utilities"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
index d5dc412cd9..0ccfd74f54 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Package maintenance system for Debian."
+SUMMARY = "Package maintenance system from Debian"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+"
 SECTION = "base"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.148.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.148.bb
index 6336a09101..110624297e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.148.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.148.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects."
+SUMMARY = "Utilities and libraries for handling compiled object files"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "(GPL-2+ & Elfutils-Exception)"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.155.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.155.bb
index 14eac26d83..b1f410c0f6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.155.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.155.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects."
+SUMMARY = "Utilities and libraries for handling compiled object files"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "(GPLv3 & Elfutils-Exception)"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
index 112e8ce7c7..feb402e75d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The GNU cc and gcc C compilers."
+SUMMARY = "GNU cc and gcc C compilers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross-canadian.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross-canadian.inc
index 136f26719e..477f499276 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross-canadian.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-cross-canadian.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 inherit cross-canadian
 
-DESCRIPTION = "The cross-canadian GNU cc and gcc C compilers for ${TARGET_ARCH} target."
+SUMMARY = "GNU cc and gcc C compilers (cross-canadian for ${TARGET_ARCH} target)"
 PN = "gcc-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
 BPN = "gcc"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
index 695495416f..31b5d73bbe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-common.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "gdb - GNU debugger"
+SUMMARY = "GNU debugger"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/"
 LICENSE="GPLv3+"
 SECTION = "devel"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
index 653f52baaf..e594bb12f5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gdb/gdb-cross-canadian.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 inherit cross-canadian
 inherit python-dir
 
-DESCRIPTION = "cross-canadian gdb for ${TARGET_ARCH} target - GNU debugger"
+SUMMARY = "GNU debugger (cross-canadian gdb for ${TARGET_ARCH} target)"
 PN = "gdb-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
 BPN = "gdb"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
index f33069c7ca..024bd9cc60 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The git revision control system used by the Linux kernel developers"
+SUMMARY = "Distributed version control system"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 DEPENDS = "openssl curl zlib expat"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/guilt/guilt-native_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/guilt/guilt-native_git.bb
index 9c75c3c970..e88ae2cc13 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/guilt/guilt-native_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/guilt/guilt-native_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "guilt is quilt like tool for git"
+SUMMARY = "quilt-like tool for Git"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b6f3400dc1a01cebafe8a52b3f344135"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.43.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.43.3.bb
index d20cee1cbd..5bf6149d14 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.43.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.43.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Program to create simple man pages"
+SUMMARY = "Program for creating simple man pages"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc
index bf0e45bea3..be77704208 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/intltool/intltool.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Utility scripts for internationalizing XML"
+SUMMARY = "Utility scripts for internationalizing XML"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.1.bb
index 6aa75a8743..dd9bea2619 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs_1.0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A tool to make device nodes"
+SUMMARY = "Tool for creating device nodes"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 SECTION = "base"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb
index 07bff64bfe..baa8f4524e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/mkelfimage/mkelfimage_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A utility to create ELF boot images for ELF-based Linux kernel images"
+SUMMARY = "Utility for creating ELF boot images for ELF-based Linux kernel images"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.coreboot.org/Mkelfimage"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_1.5.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_1.5.0.bb
index ea527849b0..6042deefbe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_1.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtd/mtd-utils_1.5.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Tools for managing memory technology devices."
+SUMMARY = "Tools for managing memory technology devices"
 SECTION = "base"
 DEPENDS = "zlib lzo e2fsprogs util-linux"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/nasm/nasm_2.10.09.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/nasm/nasm_2.10.09.bb
index 19663d6be7..bfba5dce82 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/nasm/nasm_2.10.09.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/nasm/nasm_2.10.09.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "General-purpose x86 assembler"
+SUMMARY = "General-purpose x86 assembler"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=90904486f8fbf1861cf42752e1a39efe"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
index 279cb74a1d..10063e8f8c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "OPKG Package Manager Utilities"
+SUMMARY = "Additional utilities for the opkg package manager"
 SECTION = "base"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Opkg"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-collateral.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-collateral.bb
index cacd8800e9..b121827ac7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-collateral.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-collateral.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "opkg configuration files"
+SUMMARY = "Constructs the main configuration file for opkg"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-config-base_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-config-base_1.0.bb
index f40e981126..acbe1296bf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-config-base_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg-config-base_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Base configuration files for opkg"
+SUMMARY = "Base configuration files for opkg"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc
index 4ffd430b3f..c9fb505bd3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Open Package Manager"
-DESCRIPTION_libopkg = "Open Package Manager Library"
-DESCRIPTION_update-alternatives-cworth = "Update alternatives"
+SUMMARY = "Open Package Manager"
+SUMMARY_libopkg = "Open Package Manager library"
+SUMMARY_update-alternatives-cworth = "Utility for managing the alternatives system"
 SECTION = "base"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://code.google.com/p/opkg/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://code.google.com/p/opkg/issues/list"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/orc/orc.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/orc/orc.inc
index 6fd66a3d5b..b1348310ab 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/orc/orc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/orc/orc.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "orc - The Oil Runtime Compiler"
+SUMMARY = "Optimised Inner Loop Runtime Compiler"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://code.entropywave.com/projects/orc/"
 LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1400bd9d09e8af56b9ec982b3d85797e"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-parser-perl_2.41.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-parser-perl_2.41.bb
index 66df91587b..43a8a84518 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-parser-perl_2.41.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-parser-perl_2.41.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "XML::Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents"
+SUMMARY = "XML::Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=2;endline=6;md5=c8767d7516229f07b26e42d1cf8b51f1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb
index 659baaa9e9..eda217ca73 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Perl is a popular scripting language."
+SUMMARY = "Perl is a popular scripting language"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.perl.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.3.bb
index 3829d4ba8c..9497eca543 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Perl is a popular scripting language."
+SUMMARY = "Perl is a popular scripting language"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.perl.org/"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo.inc
index 9411c57819..f1d3db5a08 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # difficult.  To work around the current version of the wrapper use:
 # BBFETCH2=True PSEUDO_BUILD=1 ../bitbake/bin/bitbake pseudo-native [-c CMD]
 
-DESCRIPTION = "Pseudo gives fake root capabilities to a normal user"
+SUMMARY = "Pseudo gives fake root capabilities to a normal user"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/pseudo"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=243b725d71bb5df4a1e5920b344b86ad"
 SECTION = "base"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc
index 8e52252225..49dbc0bcd6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc
@@ -9,268 +9,268 @@ PROVIDES+="${PN}-2to3 ${PN}-audio ${PN}-bsddb ${PN}-codecs ${PN}-compile ${PN}-c
 
 PACKAGES="${PN}-dbg ${PN}-2to3 ${PN}-audio ${PN}-bsddb ${PN}-codecs ${PN}-compile ${PN}-compiler ${PN}-compression ${PN}-core ${PN}-crypt ${PN}-ctypes ${PN}-curses ${PN}-datetime ${PN}-db ${PN}-debugger ${PN}-dev ${PN}-difflib ${PN}-distutils-staticdev ${PN}-distutils ${PN}-doctest ${PN}-elementtree ${PN}-email ${PN}-fcntl ${PN}-gdbm ${PN}-hotshot ${PN}-html ${PN}-idle ${PN}-image ${PN}-io ${PN}-json ${PN}-lang ${PN}-logging ${PN}-mailbox ${PN}-math ${PN}-mime ${PN}-mmap ${PN}-multiprocessing ${PN}-netclient ${PN}-netserver ${PN}-numbers ${PN}-pickle ${PN}-pkgutil ${PN}-pprint ${PN}-profile ${PN}-pydoc ${PN}-re ${PN}-readline ${PN}-resource ${PN}-robotparser ${PN}-shell ${PN}-smtpd ${PN}-sqlite3 ${PN}-sqlite3-tests ${PN}-stringold ${PN}-subprocess ${PN}-syslog ${PN}-terminal ${PN}-tests ${PN}-textutils ${PN}-threading ${PN}-tkinter ${PN}-unittest ${PN}-unixadmin ${PN}-xml ${PN}-xmlrpc ${PN}-zlib ${PN}-modules"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-2to3="Python Automated Python 2 to 3 code translation"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-2to3="Python automated Python 2 to 3 code translator"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-2to3="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-2to3="${bindir}/2to3 ${libdir}/python2.7/lib2to3 "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-audio="Python Audio Handling"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-audio="Python Audio Handling"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-audio="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-audio="${libdir}/python2.7/wave.* ${libdir}/python2.7/chunk.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sndhdr.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/ossaudiodev.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/audioop.so ${libdir}/python2.7/audiodev.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sunaudio.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sunau.* ${libdir}/python2.7/toaiff.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-bsddb="Python Berkeley Database Bindings"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-bsddb="Python bindings for the Berkeley Database"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-bsddb="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-bsddb="${libdir}/python2.7/bsddb ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_bsddb.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-codecs="Python Codecs, Encodings & i18n Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-codecs="Python codecs, encodings & i18n support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-codecs="${PN}-core ${PN}-lang"
 FILES_${PN}-codecs="${libdir}/python2.7/codecs.* ${libdir}/python2.7/encodings ${libdir}/python2.7/gettext.* ${libdir}/python2.7/locale.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_locale.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_codecs* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_multibytecodec.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/unicodedata.so ${libdir}/python2.7/stringprep.* ${libdir}/python2.7/xdrlib.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-compile="Python Bytecode Compilation Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-compile="Python bytecode compilation support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-compile="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-compile="${libdir}/python2.7/py_compile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/compileall.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-compiler="Python Compiler Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-compiler="Python compiler support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-compiler="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-compiler="${libdir}/python2.7/compiler "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-compression="Python High Level Compression Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-compression="Python high-level compression support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-compression="${PN}-core ${PN}-zlib"
 FILES_${PN}-compression="${libdir}/python2.7/gzip.* ${libdir}/python2.7/zipfile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/tarfile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/bz2.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-core="Python Interpreter and core modules (needed!)"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-core="Python interpreter and core modules"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-core="${PN}-lang ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-core="${libdir}/python2.7/__future__.* ${libdir}/python2.7/_abcoll.* ${libdir}/python2.7/abc.* ${libdir}/python2.7/copy.* ${libdir}/python2.7/copy_reg.* ${libdir}/python2.7/ConfigParser.* ${libdir}/python2.7/genericpath.* ${libdir}/python2.7/getopt.* ${libdir}/python2.7/linecache.* ${libdir}/python2.7/new.* ${libdir}/python2.7/os.* ${libdir}/python2.7/posixpath.* ${libdir}/python2.7/struct.* ${libdir}/python2.7/warnings.* ${libdir}/python2.7/site.* ${libdir}/python2.7/stat.* ${libdir}/python2.7/UserDict.* ${libdir}/python2.7/UserList.* ${libdir}/python2.7/UserString.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/binascii.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_struct.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/time.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/xreadlines.so \
 ${libdir}/python2.7/types.* ${libdir}/python2.7/platform.* ${bindir}/python* ${libdir}/python2.7/_weakrefset.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sysconfig.* ${libdir}/python2.7/config/Makefile ${includedir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}/pyconfig*.h ${libdir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}/sitecustomize.py "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-crypt="Python Basic Cryptographic and Hashing Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-crypt="Python basic cryptographic and hashing support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-crypt="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-crypt="${libdir}/python2.7/hashlib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/md5.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sha.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/crypt.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hashlib.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_sha256.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_sha512.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-ctypes="Python C Types Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-ctypes="Python C types support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-ctypes="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-ctypes="${libdir}/python2.7/ctypes ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ctypes.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ctypes_test.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-curses="Python Curses Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-curses="Python curses support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-curses="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-curses="${libdir}/python2.7/curses ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_curses.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_curses_panel.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-datetime="Python Calendar and Time support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-datetime="Python calendar and time support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-datetime="${PN}-core ${PN}-codecs"
 FILES_${PN}-datetime="${libdir}/python2.7/_strptime.* ${libdir}/python2.7/calendar.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/datetime.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-db="Python File-Based Database Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-db="Python file-based database support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-db="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-db="${libdir}/python2.7/anydbm.* ${libdir}/python2.7/dumbdbm.* ${libdir}/python2.7/whichdb.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-debugger="Python Debugger"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-debugger="Python debugger"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-debugger="${PN}-core ${PN}-io ${PN}-lang ${PN}-re ${PN}-stringold ${PN}-shell ${PN}-pprint"
 FILES_${PN}-debugger="${libdir}/python2.7/bdb.* ${libdir}/python2.7/pdb.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-dev="Python Development Package"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-dev="Python development package"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-dev="${includedir} ${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/*.la ${libdir}/*.a ${libdir}/*.o ${libdir}/pkgconfig ${base_libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.o ${datadir}/aclocal ${datadir}/pkgconfig "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-difflib="Python helpers for computing deltas between objects."
+SUMMARY_${PN}-difflib="Python helpers for computing deltas between objects"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-difflib="${PN}-lang ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-difflib="${libdir}/python2.7/difflib.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-distutils="Python Distribution Utilities"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-distutils="Python Distribution Utilities"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-distutils="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-distutils="${libdir}/python2.7/config ${libdir}/python2.7/distutils "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-distutils-staticdev="Python Distribution Utilities (Static Libraries)"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-distutils-staticdev="Python distribution utilities (static libraries)"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-distutils-staticdev="${PN}-distutils"
 FILES_${PN}-distutils-staticdev="${libdir}/python2.7/config/lib*.a "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-doctest="Python framework for running examples in docstrings."
+SUMMARY_${PN}-doctest="Python framework for running examples in docstrings"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-doctest="${PN}-core ${PN}-lang ${PN}-io ${PN}-re ${PN}-unittest ${PN}-debugger ${PN}-difflib"
 FILES_${PN}-doctest="${libdir}/python2.7/doctest.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-elementtree="Python elementree"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-elementtree="Python elementree"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-elementtree="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-elementtree="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_elementtree.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-email="Python Email Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-email="Python email support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-email="${PN}-core ${PN}-io ${PN}-re ${PN}-mime ${PN}-audio ${PN}-image ${PN}-netclient"
 FILES_${PN}-email="${libdir}/python2.7/imaplib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/email "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-fcntl="Python's fcntl Interface"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-fcntl="Python's fcntl interface"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-fcntl="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-fcntl="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/fcntl.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-gdbm="Python GNU Database Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-gdbm="Python GNU database support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-gdbm="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-gdbm="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/gdbm.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-hotshot="Python Hotshot Profiler"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-hotshot="Python hotshot performance profiler"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-hotshot="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-hotshot="${libdir}/python2.7/hotshot ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_hotshot.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-html="Python HTML Processing"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-html="Python HTML processing support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-html="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-html="${libdir}/python2.7/formatter.* ${libdir}/python2.7/htmlentitydefs.* ${libdir}/python2.7/htmllib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/markupbase.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sgmllib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/HTMLParser.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-idle="Python Integrated Development Environment"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-idle="Python Integrated Development Environment"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-idle="${PN}-core ${PN}-tkinter"
 FILES_${PN}-idle="${bindir}/idle ${libdir}/python2.7/idlelib "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-image="Python Graphical Image Handling"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-image="Python graphical image handling"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-image="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-image="${libdir}/python2.7/colorsys.* ${libdir}/python2.7/imghdr.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/imageop.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/rgbimg.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-io="Python Low-Level I/O"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-io="Python low-level I/O"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-io="${PN}-core ${PN}-math ${PN}-textutils"
 FILES_${PN}-io="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_socket.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_io.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/select.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/termios.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/cStringIO.so ${libdir}/python2.7/pipes.* ${libdir}/python2.7/socket.* ${libdir}/python2.7/ssl.* ${libdir}/python2.7/tempfile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/StringIO.* ${libdir}/python2.7/io.* ${libdir}/python2.7/_pyio.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-json="Python JSON Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-json="Python JSON support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-json="${PN}-core ${PN}-math ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-json="${libdir}/python2.7/json ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_json.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-lang="Python Low-Level Language Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-lang="Python low-level language support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-lang="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-lang="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_bisect.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_collections.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_heapq.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_weakref.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_functools.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/array.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/itertools.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/operator.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/parser.so ${libdir}/python2.7/atexit.* ${libdir}/python2.7/bisect.* ${libdir}/python2.7/code.* ${libdir}/python2.7/codeop.* ${libdir}/python2.7/collections.* ${libdir}/python2.7/dis.* ${libdir}/python2.7/functools.* ${libdir}/python2.7/heapq.* ${libdir}/python2.7/inspect.* ${libdir}/python2.7/keyword.* ${libdir}/python2.7/opcode.* ${libdir}/python2.7/symbol.* ${libdir}/python2.7/repr.* ${libdir}/python2.7/token.* ${libdir}/python2.7/tokenize.* ${libdir}/python2.7/traceback.* ${libdir}/python2.7/weakref.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-logging="Python Logging Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-logging="Python logging support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-logging="${PN}-core ${PN}-io ${PN}-lang ${PN}-pickle ${PN}-stringold"
 FILES_${PN}-logging="${libdir}/python2.7/logging "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-mailbox="Python Mailbox Format Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-mailbox="Python mailbox format support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-mailbox="${PN}-core ${PN}-mime"
 FILES_${PN}-mailbox="${libdir}/python2.7/mailbox.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-math="Python Math Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-math="Python math support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-math="${PN}-core ${PN}-crypt"
 FILES_${PN}-math="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/cmath.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/math.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_random.so ${libdir}/python2.7/random.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sets.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-mime="Python MIME Handling APIs"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-mime="Python MIME handling APIs"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-mime="${PN}-core ${PN}-io"
 FILES_${PN}-mime="${libdir}/python2.7/mimetools.* ${libdir}/python2.7/uu.* ${libdir}/python2.7/quopri.* ${libdir}/python2.7/rfc822.* ${libdir}/python2.7/MimeWriter.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-mmap="Python Memory-Mapped-File Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-mmap="Python memory-mapped file support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-mmap="${PN}-core ${PN}-io"
 FILES_${PN}-mmap="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/mmap.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-multiprocessing="Python Multiprocessing Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-multiprocessing="Python multiprocessing support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-multiprocessing="${PN}-core ${PN}-io ${PN}-lang ${PN}-pickle ${PN}-threading ${PN}-ctypes"
 FILES_${PN}-multiprocessing="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_multiprocessing.so ${libdir}/python2.7/multiprocessing "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-netclient="Python Internet Protocol Clients"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-netclient="Python Internet Protocol clients"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-netclient="${PN}-core ${PN}-crypt ${PN}-datetime ${PN}-io ${PN}-lang ${PN}-logging ${PN}-mime"
 FILES_${PN}-netclient="${libdir}/python2.7/*Cookie*.* ${libdir}/python2.7/base64.* ${libdir}/python2.7/cookielib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/ftplib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/gopherlib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/hmac.* ${libdir}/python2.7/httplib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/mimetypes.* ${libdir}/python2.7/nntplib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/poplib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/smtplib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/telnetlib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/urllib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/urllib2.* ${libdir}/python2.7/urlparse.* ${libdir}/python2.7/uuid.* ${libdir}/python2.7/rfc822.* ${libdir}/python2.7/mimetools.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-netserver="Python Internet Protocol Servers"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-netserver="Python Internet Protocol servers"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-netserver="${PN}-core ${PN}-netclient"
 FILES_${PN}-netserver="${libdir}/python2.7/cgi.* ${libdir}/python2.7/*HTTPServer.* ${libdir}/python2.7/SocketServer.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-numbers="Python Number APIs"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-numbers="Python number APIs"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-numbers="${PN}-core ${PN}-lang ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-numbers="${libdir}/python2.7/decimal.* ${libdir}/python2.7/numbers.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-pickle="Python Persistence Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-pickle="Python serialisation/persistence support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-pickle="${PN}-core ${PN}-codecs ${PN}-io ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-pickle="${libdir}/python2.7/pickle.* ${libdir}/python2.7/shelve.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/cPickle.so ${libdir}/python2.7/pickletools.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-pkgutil="Python Package Extension Utility Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-pkgutil="Python package extension utility support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-pkgutil="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-pkgutil="${libdir}/python2.7/pkgutil.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-pprint="Python Pretty-Print Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-pprint="Python pretty-print support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-pprint="${PN}-core ${PN}-io"
 FILES_${PN}-pprint="${libdir}/python2.7/pprint.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-profile="Python Basic Profiling Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-profile="Python basic performance profiling support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-profile="${PN}-core ${PN}-textutils"
 FILES_${PN}-profile="${libdir}/python2.7/profile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/pstats.* ${libdir}/python2.7/cProfile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_lsprof.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-pydoc="Python Interactive Help Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-pydoc="Python interactive help support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-pydoc="${PN}-core ${PN}-lang ${PN}-stringold ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-pydoc="${bindir}/pydoc ${libdir}/python2.7/pydoc.* ${libdir}/python2.7/pydoc_data "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-re="Python Regular Expression APIs"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-re="Python Regular Expression APIs"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-re="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-re="${libdir}/python2.7/re.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sre.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sre_compile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sre_constants* ${libdir}/python2.7/sre_parse.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-readline="Python Readline Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-readline="Python readline support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-readline="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-readline="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/readline.so ${libdir}/python2.7/rlcompleter.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-resource="Python Resource Control Interface"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-resource="Python resource control interface"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-resource="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-resource="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/resource.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-robotparser="Python robots.txt parser"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-robotparser="Python robots.txt parser"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-robotparser="${PN}-core ${PN}-netclient"
 FILES_${PN}-robotparser="${libdir}/python2.7/robotparser.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-shell="Python Shell-Like Functionality"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-shell="Python shell-like functionality"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-shell="${PN}-core ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-shell="${libdir}/python2.7/cmd.* ${libdir}/python2.7/commands.* ${libdir}/python2.7/dircache.* ${libdir}/python2.7/fnmatch.* ${libdir}/python2.7/glob.* ${libdir}/python2.7/popen2.* ${libdir}/python2.7/shlex.* ${libdir}/python2.7/shutil.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-smtpd="Python Simple Mail Transport Daemon"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-smtpd="Python Simple Mail Transport Daemon"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-smtpd="${PN}-core ${PN}-netserver ${PN}-email ${PN}-mime"
 FILES_${PN}-smtpd="${bindir}/smtpd.* ${libdir}/python2.7/smtpd.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-sqlite3="Python Sqlite3 Database Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-sqlite3="Python Sqlite3 database support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-sqlite3="${PN}-core ${PN}-datetime ${PN}-lang ${PN}-crypt ${PN}-io ${PN}-threading ${PN}-zlib"
 FILES_${PN}-sqlite3="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so ${libdir}/python2.7/sqlite3/dbapi2.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sqlite3/__init__.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sqlite3/dump.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-sqlite3-tests="Python Sqlite3 Database Support Tests"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-sqlite3-tests="Python Sqlite3 database support tests"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-sqlite3-tests="${PN}-core ${PN}-sqlite3"
 FILES_${PN}-sqlite3-tests="${libdir}/python2.7/sqlite3/test "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-stringold="Python String APIs [deprecated]"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-stringold="Python string APIs [deprecated]"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-stringold="${PN}-core ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-stringold="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/strop.so ${libdir}/python2.7/string.* ${libdir}/python2.7/stringold.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-subprocess="Python Subprocess Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-subprocess="Python subprocess support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-subprocess="${PN}-core ${PN}-io ${PN}-re ${PN}-fcntl ${PN}-pickle"
 FILES_${PN}-subprocess="${libdir}/python2.7/subprocess.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-syslog="Python Syslog Interface"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-syslog="Python syslog interface"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-syslog="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-syslog="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/syslog.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-terminal="Python Terminal Controlling Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-terminal="Python terminal controlling support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-terminal="${PN}-core ${PN}-io"
 FILES_${PN}-terminal="${libdir}/python2.7/pty.* ${libdir}/python2.7/tty.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-tests="Python Tests"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-tests="Python tests"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-tests="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-tests="${libdir}/python2.7/test "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-textutils="Python Option Parsing, Text Wrapping and Comma-Separated-Value Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-textutils="Python option parsing, text wrapping and CSV support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-textutils="${PN}-core ${PN}-io ${PN}-re ${PN}-stringold"
 FILES_${PN}-textutils="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_csv.so ${libdir}/python2.7/csv.* ${libdir}/python2.7/optparse.* ${libdir}/python2.7/textwrap.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-threading="Python Threading & Synchronization Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-threading="Python threading & synchronization support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-threading="${PN}-core ${PN}-lang"
 FILES_${PN}-threading="${libdir}/python2.7/_threading_local.* ${libdir}/python2.7/dummy_thread.* ${libdir}/python2.7/dummy_threading.* ${libdir}/python2.7/mutex.* ${libdir}/python2.7/threading.* ${libdir}/python2.7/Queue.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-tkinter="Python Tcl/Tk Bindings"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-tkinter="Python Tcl/Tk bindings"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-tkinter="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-tkinter="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-tk "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-unittest="Python Unit Testing Framework"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-unittest="Python unit testing framework"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-unittest="${PN}-core ${PN}-stringold ${PN}-lang ${PN}-io ${PN}-difflib ${PN}-pprint ${PN}-shell"
 FILES_${PN}-unittest="${libdir}/python2.7/unittest/ "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-unixadmin="Python Unix Administration Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-unixadmin="Python Unix administration support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-unixadmin="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-unixadmin="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/nis.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/grp.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/pwd.so ${libdir}/python2.7/getpass.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-xml="Python basic XML support."
+SUMMARY_${PN}-xml="Python basic XML support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-xml="${PN}-core ${PN}-elementtree ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-xml="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so ${libdir}/python2.7/xml ${libdir}/python2.7/xmllib.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-xmlrpc="Python XMLRPC Support"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-xmlrpc="Python XML-RPC support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-xmlrpc="${PN}-core ${PN}-xml ${PN}-netserver ${PN}-lang"
 FILES_${PN}-xmlrpc="${libdir}/python2.7/xmlrpclib.* ${libdir}/python2.7/SimpleXMLRPCServer.* ${libdir}/python2.7/DocXMLRPCServer.* "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-zlib="Python zlib Support."
+SUMMARY_${PN}-zlib="Python zlib compression support"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-zlib="${PN}-core"
 FILES_${PN}-zlib="${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/zlib.so "
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}-modules="All Python modules"
+SUMMARY_${PN}-modules="All Python modules"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-modules="${PN}-2to3 ${PN}-audio ${PN}-bsddb ${PN}-codecs ${PN}-compile ${PN}-compiler ${PN}-compression ${PN}-core ${PN}-crypt ${PN}-ctypes ${PN}-curses ${PN}-datetime ${PN}-db ${PN}-debugger ${PN}-difflib ${PN}-distutils ${PN}-doctest ${PN}-elementtree ${PN}-email ${PN}-fcntl ${PN}-gdbm ${PN}-hotshot ${PN}-html ${PN}-idle ${PN}-image ${PN}-io ${PN}-json ${PN}-lang ${PN}-logging ${PN}-mailbox ${PN}-math ${PN}-mime ${PN}-mmap ${PN}-multiprocessing ${PN}-netclient ${PN}-netserver ${PN}-numbers ${PN}-pickle ${PN}-pkgutil ${PN}-pprint ${PN}-profile ${PN}-pydoc ${PN}-re ${PN}-readline ${PN}-resource ${PN}-robotparser ${PN}-shell ${PN}-smtpd ${PN}-sqlite3 ${PN}-sqlite3-tests ${PN}-stringold ${PN}-subprocess ${PN}-syslog ${PN}-terminal ${PN}-tests ${PN}-textutils ${PN}-threading ${PN}-tkinter ${PN}-unittest ${PN}-unixadmin ${PN}-xml ${PN}-xmlrpc ${PN}-zlib  "
 ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-modules = "1"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-argparse_1.2.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-argparse_1.2.1.bb
index 1f07738547..b2850a3831 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-argparse_1.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-argparse_1.2.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python command-line parsing library"
+SUMMARY = "Python command-line parsing library"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "PSF"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=09d08bb5b7047e2688ea3faad6408aa8"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus_1.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus_1.2.0.bb
index a185d841e2..e64f99f87a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus_1.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus_1.2.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python bindings for DBus, a socket-based message bus system for interprocess communication"
+SUMMARY = "Python bindings for the DBus inter-process communication system"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-docutils_0.11.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-docutils_0.11.bb
index 7987244c0c..f5da973d99 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-docutils_0.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-docutils_0.11.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Text processing system"
+SUMMARY = "Text processing system for documentation"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://docutils.sourceforge.net"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "PSF & BSD-2-Clause & GPLv3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-gst_0.10.22.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-gst_0.10.22.bb
index 8b041c3da0..a551adbfa6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-gst_0.10.22.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-gst_0.10.22.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python Gstreamer bindings"
+SUMMARY = "Python bindings for the GStreamer multimedia framework"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
 DEPENDS = "gstreamer gst-plugins-base python-pygobject"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb
index efc57cfabc..ed8cfcc212 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-imaging_1.1.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python Imaging Library"
+SUMMARY = "Python Imaging Library (PIL)"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=92;endline=120;md5=c4371af4579f1e489cf881c1443dd4ec"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycairo_1.10.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycairo_1.10.0.bb
index dc009b3edf..5b59b6ccc1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycairo_1.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycairo_1.10.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python Bindings for the Cairo canvas library"
+SUMMARY = "Python bindings for the Cairo canvas library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cairographics.org/pycairo"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugs.freedesktop.org"
 SECTION = "python-devel"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.2.bb
index fb57b49a93..aceaab34cb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pycurl_7.19.0.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "libcurl python bindings."
+SUMMARY = "Python bindings for libcurl"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ | MIT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.27.91.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.27.91.bb
index 322521bc20..49ee1083cf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.27.91.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.27.91.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python GObject bindings"
+SUMMARY = "Python GObject bindings"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a916467b91076e631dd8edb7424769c7"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygtk_2.24.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygtk_2.24.0.bb
index 475ea17300..3dbef897a2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygtk_2.24.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygtk_2.24.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python GTK+ 2.17.x Bindings"
+SUMMARY = "Python bindings for the GTK+ UI toolkit"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 # needs gtk+ 2.17.x
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ libglade python-pycairo python-pygobject"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.3.0.bb
index 1110f6ea43..eb2735d46f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-scons_2.3.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A Software Construction Tool"
+SUMMARY = "Software Construction tool (make/autotools replacement)"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=98e9a1e6029e715255c52032a1eba637"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools_1.4.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools_1.4.bb
index 3cfda56ce6..4138d288a8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools_1.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools_1.4.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
+SUMMARY = "Downloads, builds, installs, upgrades, and uninstalls Python packages"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
 LICENSE = "PSF"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
index fcfeda5cbc..87f5a39116 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The Python Programming Language"
+SUMMARY = "The Python Programming Language"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.python.org"
 LICENSE = "PSFv2"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb
index e3eb8dc9d9..8d27c4db61 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Qemu helper utilities from Poky"
+SUMMARY = "Helper utilities needed by the runqemu script"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "qemu-native"
 PR = "r1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
index 319dcde991..e210ea1a3e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "open source processor emulator"
+SUMMARY = "Fast open source processor emulator"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qemu.org"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 zlib alsa-lib virtual/libx11 pixman dtc libsdl"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemuwrapper-cross_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemuwrapper-cross_1.0.bb
index 501d803e1d..3bfb5bde80 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemuwrapper-cross_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemuwrapper-cross_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Qemu wrapper script"
+SUMMARY = "QEMU wrapper script"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.60.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.60.inc
index 5fe201fc5b..18105bca02 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.60.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/quilt/quilt-0.60.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Tool to work with series of patches."
+SUMMARY = "Tool for working with series of patches"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc
index fd337df1cb..4223c590f9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A file-synchronization tool"
+SUMMARY = "File synchronization tool"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rsync.samba.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://rsync.samba.org/bugzilla.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb
index 8c8b115ed6..6854c77f74 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_2.6.9.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A file-synchronization tool"
+SUMMARY = "File synchronization tool"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rsync.samba.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://rsync.samba.org/bugzilla.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts_1.0.bb
index e18e7b6ad6..9c4de03ff7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Run postinstall scripts on device"
+SUMMARY = "Runs postinstall scripts on first boot of the target device"
 SECTION = "devel"
 PR = "r9"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_4.8.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_4.8.bb
index 9fedb6ba86..24827458cc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_4.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_4.8.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "strace is a system call tracing tool."
+SUMMARY = "System call tracing tool"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://strace.sourceforge.net"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "BSD"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.6.15.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.6.15.bb
index ef679b3b65..f225671d0f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.6.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.6.15.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The Subversion (svn) client"
+SUMMARY = "Subversion (svn) version control system client"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 DEPENDS = "apr-util neon sqlite3"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "neon"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.7.10.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.7.10.bb
index 489bddfc61..acef3bd62d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.7.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.7.10.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The Subversion (svn) client"
+SUMMARY = "Subversion (svn) version control system client"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 DEPENDS = "apr-util neon sqlite3 file"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "neon"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/swabber/swabber-native_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/swabber/swabber-native_git.bb
index 2648c61d34..2f313bb466 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/swabber/swabber-native_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/swabber/swabber-native_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Swabber is a tool that can help with understanding a program's use of host files."
+SUMMARY = "Tool to monitor and report on host system file usage"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/swabber"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/syslinux/syslinux_6.01.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/syslinux/syslinux_6.01.bb
index 1c240def9e..078f8bc40b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/syslinux/syslinux_6.01.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/syslinux/syslinux_6.01.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A multi-purpose linux bootloader"
+SUMMARY = "Multi-purpose linux bootloader"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://syslinux.zytor.com/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/tcf-agent/tcf-agent_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/tcf-agent/tcf-agent_git.bb
index e7779cd210..1eb0021eec 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/tcf-agent/tcf-agent_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/tcf-agent/tcf-agent_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Target Communication Framework"
+SUMMARY = "Target Communication Framework for the Eclipse IDE"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wiki.eclipse.org/TCF"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl_8.6.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl_8.6.1.bb
index 0d6468a38c..be59ad1376 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl_8.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl_8.6.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Tool Command Language"
+SUMMARY = "Tool Command Language"
 LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
 SECTION = "devel/tcltk"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://tcl.sourceforge.net"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/ubootchart/ubootchart_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/ubootchart/ubootchart_svn.bb
index 8cdedf9005..b13755e855 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/ubootchart/ubootchart_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/ubootchart/ubootchart_svn.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A boot profiling tool"
+SUMMARY = "A boot profiling tool"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://code.google.com/p/ubootchart/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8f0e2cd40e05189ec81232da84bd6e1a"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/unfs-server/unfs-server_2.1+2.2beta47.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/unfs-server/unfs-server_2.1+2.2beta47.bb
index f65e92bf37..226a6456d3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/unfs-server/unfs-server_2.1+2.2beta47.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/unfs-server/unfs-server_2.1+2.2beta47.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Userspace NFS server"
+SUMMARY = "Userspace NFS server"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/unifdef/unifdef-native_2.6.18+git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/unifdef/unifdef-native_2.6.18+git.bb
index b1869fd4c9..9a28684236 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/unifdef/unifdef-native_2.6.18+git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/unifdef/unifdef-native_2.6.18+git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Kernel header preprocessor"
+SUMMARY = "Kernel header preprocessor"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.9.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.9.0.bb
index 80aac62789..216fdab5ac 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/valgrind_3.9.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Valgrind memory debugger"
+SUMMARY = "Valgrind memory debugger and instrumentation framework"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://valgrind.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://valgrind.org/support/bug_reports.html"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv2+ & BSD"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/augeas/augeas.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/augeas/augeas.inc
index da41d420ef..61f81b084c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/augeas/augeas.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/augeas/augeas.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Augeas configuration API"
+SUMMARY = "Augeas configuration API"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://augeas.net/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://fedorahosted.org/augeas/report/1"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
index 99875bfc75..107c48f950 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An sh-compatible command language interpreter."
+SUMMARY = "An sh-compatible command language interpreter"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html"
 SECTION = "base/shell"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb
index 3013c10726..055031829c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bc/bc_1.06.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An arbitrary precision calculator language."
+SUMMARY = "Arbitrary precision calculator language"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/bc.html"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.1.bb
index 5e6156f4bd..b4354a4139 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cracklib/cracklib_2.9.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A pro-active password checker library"
+SUMMARY = "Password strength checker library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib"
 
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cwautomacros/cwautomacros_20110201.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/cwautomacros/cwautomacros_20110201.bb
index 3f1622558f..ee4b8900bb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cwautomacros/cwautomacros_20110201.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cwautomacros/cwautomacros_20110201.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "cwautomacros: a collection of autoconf m4 macros"
+SUMMARY = "Collection of autoconf m4 macros"
 SECTION = "base"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cwautomacros.berlios.de/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_0.5.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_0.5.bb
index d251e4e390..a696c0c8fb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_0.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_0.5.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor"
+SUMMARY = "Line-oriented text editor"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.9.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.9.bb
index 90c46e6b4c..8ae99cc3e8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ed/ed_1.9.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "a line-oriented text editor"
+SUMMARY = "Line-oriented text editor"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.33.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.33.bb
index e8be6594a2..528fda7791 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.33.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.33.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Lightweight high-performance web server"
+SUMMARY = "Lightweight high-performance web server"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.lighttpd.net/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/issues"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.1.bb
index e5b30d80b4..b12a32577b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files"
+SUMMARY = "Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/logrotate"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_4.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_4.1.bb
index ecb4dcc064..d265731e04 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_4.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsb_4.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "LSB support for OpenEmbedded"
+SUMMARY = "LSB support for OpenEmbedded"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lsb"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.50.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.50.bb
index 3071b6ae2b..347fa7fe00 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.50.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.50.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "SysV init scripts which only is used in an LSB image"
+SUMMARY = "SysV init scripts which are only used in an LSB image"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 DEPENDS = "popt glib-2.0"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbtest_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbtest_1.0.bb
index 520c1e79bd..a877beb299 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbtest_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbtest_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "automate test for lsb"
+SUMMARY = "Automates Linux Standard Base (LSB) tests"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 PR = "r3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.7.5.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.7.5.2.bb
index 52e4f401a3..ac2216d8ca 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.7.5.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.7.5.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Midnight Commander is an ncurses based file manager."
+SUMMARY = "Midnight Commander is an ncurses based file manager"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.midnight-commander.org/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ do_install_append () {
 
 PACKAGES =+ "${BPN}-helpers-perl ${BPN}-helpers-python ${BPN}-helpers ${BPN}-fish"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "Midnight Commander perl based helper scripts" 
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "Midnight Commander Perl-based helper scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/a+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/apt+ \
                              ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/deb ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/deba \
                              ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/debd ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/dpkg+ \
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ FILES_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/a+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.
                              ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/uzip"
 RDEPENDS_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "perl"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-helpers-python = "Midnight Commander python based helper scripts" 
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers-python = "Midnight Commander Python-based helper scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-helpers-python = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/s3+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/uc1541"
 RDEPENDS_${BPN}-helpers-python = "python"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-helpers = "Midnight Commander shell helper scripts" 
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers = "Midnight Commander shell helper scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-helpers = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/* ${libexecdir}/mc/ext.d/*"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-fish = "Midnight Commander Fish scripts"
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-fish = "Midnight Commander Fish scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-fish = "${libexecdir}/mc/fish"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.10.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.10.bb
index 51b6772214..09cfa3c53d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.10.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Midnight Commander is an ncurses based file manager."
+SUMMARY = "Midnight Commander is an ncurses based file manager"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.midnight-commander.org/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=270bbafe360e73f9840bd7981621f9c2"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ do_install_append () {
 
 PACKAGES =+ "${BPN}-helpers-perl ${BPN}-helpers-python ${BPN}-helpers ${BPN}-fish"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "Midnight Commander perl based helper scripts" 
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "Midnight Commander Perl-based helper scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/a+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/apt+ \
                              ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/deb ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/deba \
                              ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/debd ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/dpkg+ \
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ FILES_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/a+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.
                              ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/uzip"
 RDEPENDS_${BPN}-helpers-perl = "perl"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-helpers-python = "Midnight Commander python based helper scripts" 
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers-python = "Midnight Commander Python-based helper scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-helpers-python = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/s3+ ${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/uc1541"
 RDEPENDS_${BPN}-helpers-python = "python"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-helpers = "Midnight Commander shell helper scripts" 
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-helpers = "Midnight Commander shell helper scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-helpers = "${libexecdir}/mc/extfs.d/* ${libexecdir}/mc/ext.d/*"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${BPN}-fish = "Midnight Commander Fish scripts"
+SUMMARY_${BPN}-fish = "Midnight Commander Fish scripts"
 FILES_${BPN}-fish = "${libexecdir}/mc/fish"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_3.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_3.3.bb
index 536239658f..cfb9ccd5c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_3.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_3.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = " A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux"
+SUMMARY = "Tool for managing software RAID under Linux"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/"
 
 # Some files are GPLv2+ while others are GPLv2.
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
index fbd9cb4093..f1936afd23 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mingetty/mingetty_1.08.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = " A compact getty program for virtual consoles only"
+SUMMARY = "Compact getty terminal handler for virtual consoles only"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingetty/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/mktemp_1.7.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/mktemp_1.7.bb
index 170a183a6e..b53fc11b1e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/mktemp_1.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mktemp/mktemp_1.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Allow safe temporary file creation from shell scripts."
+SUMMARY = "Enables safe temporary file creation from shell scripts"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.mktemp.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://www.mktemp.org/bugs"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.1.bb
index 079b29593d..2d720270d8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/parted/parted_3.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "parted, the GNU partition resizing program"
+SUMMARY = "Disk partition editing/resizing utility"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2f31b266d3440dd7ee50f92cf67d8e6c"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.26.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.26.bb
index 95682ee38a..9c2c9d5584 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.26.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.26.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Convert::ASN1 - ASN.1 Encode/Decode library"
+SUMMARY = "Convert::ASN1 - Perl ASN.1 Encode/Decode library"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.md;beginline=91;endline=97;md5=ceff7fd286eb6d8e8e0d3d23e096a63f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb
index fb396f1115..c8fcde45f4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "TimeDate - parser for absolute times"
+SUMMARY = "Perl modules useful for manipulating date and time information"
 SECTION = "libs"
 # You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
 LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.01.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.01.bb
index a5f69b3c45..d62834f43d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.01.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/quota/quota_4.01.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "display disk usage and limits"
+SUMMARY = "Tools for monitoring & limiting user disk usage per filesystem"
 SECTION = "base"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=18136&atid=118136"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.1.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.1.2.bb
index 5fa4e87521..5607b0ac62 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.1.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "sed is a Stream EDitor."
+SUMMARY = "Stream EDitor (text filtering utility)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.2.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.2.2.bb
index c3eca2716d..cf8347c2d5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sed/sed_4.2.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "sed is a Stream EDitor."
+SUMMARY = "Stream EDitor (text filtering utility)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb
index f16841622e..a22b981a5d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texi2html/texi2html_5.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Perl script that converts Texinfo to HTML"
+SUMMARY = "Perl script that converts Texinfo to HTML"
 HOMEPAGE    = "http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/"
 SECTION     = "console/utils"
 LICENSE     = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2013h.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2013h.bb
index 5cdc7efdff..9e1c8f8504 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2013h.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2013h.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "tzcode, timezone zoneinfo utils -- zic, zdump, tzselect"
+SUMMARY = "Timezone zoneinfo utils (zic, zdump, tzselect)"
 LICENSE = "PD & BSD"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/README;md5=0b7570113550eb5d30aa4bd220964b8f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2013h.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2013h.bb
index 16d67d3eaa..f2b513c96f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2013h.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2013h.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Timezone data"
+SUMMARY = "Timezone database"
 HOMEPAGE = "ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "PD & BSD"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb
index 0f634c8cb9..584802a598 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/unzip/unzip_6.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A (de)compression library for the ZIP format"
+SUMMARY = "Utilities for extracting and viewing files in .zip archives"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.info-zip.org"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc
index 9ef5641881..3148d738e2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/wget/wget.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A console URL download utility featuring HTTP, FTP, and more."
+SUMMARY = "Console URL download utility supporting HTTP, FTP, etc."
 SECTION = "console/network"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.bb
index 0e281722e5..1928949e94 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xinetd/xinetd_2.3.15.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Highly configurable, modular and secure inetd"
+SUMMARY = "Socket-based service activation daemon"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.xinetd.org"
 
 # xinetd is a BSD-like license
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.3alpha.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.3alpha.bb
index 9e2c933f25..b8501a5a39 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.3alpha.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.3alpha.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "utils for managing LZMA compressed files"
+SUMMARY = "Utilities for managing LZMA compressed files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://tukaani.org/xz/"
 SECTION = "base"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/zip/zip.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/zip/zip.inc
index c73571ad54..6221c5e139 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/zip/zip.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/zip/zip.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Archiver for .zip files"
+SUMMARY = "Compressor/archiver for creating and modifying .zip files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.info-zip.org"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.30.1.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.30.1.bb
index b7aed7a41c..408178d2a2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.30.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.30.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Image loading library for GTK+"
+SUMMARY = "Image loading library for GTK+"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gtk.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.6.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.6.bb
index 50285aa645..e081ec38f9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gconf_3.2.6.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNOME configuration system"
+SUMMARY = "GNOME configuration system"
 SECTION = "x11/gnome"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-common_3.7.4.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-common_3.7.4.bb
index 70b1e2944d..1fd2d83b2f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-common_3.7.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-common_3.7.4.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Common macros for building GNOME applications"
+SUMMARY = "Common macros for building GNOME applications"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-desktop.inc b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-desktop.inc
index 3c6dc24bc6..4fcf6abc03 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-desktop.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-desktop.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNOME library for reading .desktop files"
+SUMMARY = "GNOME library for reading .desktop files"
 SECTION = "x11/gnome"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2"
 DEPENDS = "gconf libxrandr virtual/libx11 gtk+ glib-2.0 gnome-doc-utils startup-notification"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-icon-theme_2.31.0.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-icon-theme_2.31.0.bb
index 920ee4ff8c..eb652248ec 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-icon-theme_2.31.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-icon-theme_2.31.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNOME 2 default icon themes"
+SUMMARY = "GNOME 2 default icon themes"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 SECTION = "x11/gnome"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-mime-data_2.18.0.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-mime-data_2.18.0.bb
index fc891c7624..62712faf3c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-mime-data_2.18.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-mime-data_2.18.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Base MIME and Application database for GNOME"
+SUMMARY = "Base MIME and Application database for GNOME"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gsettings-desktop-schemas_3.7.3.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gsettings-desktop-schemas_3.7.3.bb
index 874f9cb1ae..40e5b11f11 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gsettings-desktop-schemas_3.7.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gsettings-desktop-schemas_3.7.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A collection of GSettings schemas for settings shared by various components of a desktop"
+SUMMARY = "GNOME desktop-wide GSettings schemas"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://live.gnome.org/gsettings-desktop-schemas"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl_2.3.21.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl_2.3.21.bb
index 934ef10d13..4966ea4c7a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl_2.3.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/libart-lgpl_2.3.21.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library of functions for 2D graphics"
+SUMMARY = "Library of functions for 2D graphics"
 SECTION = "x11/gnome"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb
index f899307745..ba07ac0c23 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-engines/gtk-engines_2.20.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GTK theme engines"
+SUMMARY = "GTK+ theme engines"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-theme-torturer/gtk-theme-torturer_git.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-theme-torturer/gtk-theme-torturer_git.bb
index 3a10ea783c..889fd89417 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-theme-torturer/gtk-theme-torturer_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtk-theme-torturer/gtk-theme-torturer_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Gtk+ Theme Benchmark Program"
+SUMMARY = "GTK+ Theme benchmark program"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GTK_for_OLPC"
 SECTION = "devel"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme_0.12.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme_0.12.bb
index 9a8e5a6f12..ba0c27f1a7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme_0.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme_0.12.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "default icon theme that all icon themes automatically inherit from."
+SUMMARY = "Default icon theme that all icon themes automatically inherit from"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/wiki/HicolorTheme"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb
index c8a2fac89c..72f4c562a9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Runtime support for GTK interface builder"
+SUMMARY = "Runtime support for the GTK+ interface builder"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://library.gnome.org/devel/libglade/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.6.0.bb
index 0a590e3b48..61ae5e6421 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.6.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Send desktop notifications to a notification daemon"
+SUMMARY = "Library for sending desktop notifications to a notification daemon"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.40.1.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.40.1.bb
index 4fc0e72f94..7b97df58be 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.40.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.40.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library for rendering SVG files"
+SUMMARY = "Library for rendering SVG files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/librsvg/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-1.0.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-1.0.inc
index d9311fea4d..3ca19b34cb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-1.0.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-1.0.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Clutter graphics library"
+SUMMARY = "Graphics library for creating hardware-accelerated user interfaces"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.clutter-project.org/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gst-1.0.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gst-1.0.inc
index b5edcae476..bb05ede624 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gst-1.0.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gst-1.0.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Clutter GStreamer"
+SUMMARY = "GStreamer integration library for Clutter"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.clutter-project.org/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gtk-1.0.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gtk-1.0.inc
index 3717f48cba..45898b4d60 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gtk-1.0.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gtk-1.0.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "ClutterGtk"
+SUMMARY = "Library for embedding a Clutter canvas in a GTK+ application"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.clutter-project.org/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/cogl/cogl-1.0.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/cogl/cogl-1.0.inc
index d4df0099f1..15bfea26bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/cogl/cogl-1.0.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/cogl/cogl-1.0.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "a modern 3D graphics API with associated utility APIs"
+SUMMARY = "Modern 3D graphics API with associated utility APIs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wiki.clutter-project.org/wiki/Cogl"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/fstests/fstests_git.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/fstests/fstests_git.bb
index 678d1e7ba0..2f5a8727af 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/fstests/fstests_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/fstests/fstests_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Various benchmarning tests for X"
+SUMMARY = "Various benchmarning tests for X"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.o-hand.com"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "Zlib"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/libmatchbox/libmatchbox_1.11.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/libmatchbox/libmatchbox_1.11.bb
index e2e971ecc7..4acac39f0d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/libmatchbox/libmatchbox_1.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/libmatchbox/libmatchbox_1.11.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox window manager core library"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox window manager core library"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matchbox-project.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.com/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-session/matchbox-session_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-session/matchbox-session_0.1.bb
index 9453eae224..cbaf054365 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-session/matchbox-session_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-session/matchbox-session_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Custom MB session files for poky"
+SUMMARY = "Custom Matchbox session files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.matchbox-project.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb
index b009c4b5e0..8ee42c34b0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_1.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox lightweight window manager"
 SECTION = "x11/wm"
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox window manager"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+"
 DEPENDS = "libmatchbox virtual/libx11 libxext libxcomposite libxfixes libxcursor xdamage libxrender startup-notification expat"
 PR = "r5"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_git.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_git.bb
index 7d112ef47c..154b967d2c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/matchbox-wm/matchbox-wm_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox window manager"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox lightweight window manager"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matchbox-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/mini-x-session/mini-x-session_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/mini-x-session/mini-x-session_0.1.bb
index 3819ee350e..4e89d631c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/mini-x-session/mini-x-session_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/mini-x-session/mini-x-session_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Mini X session files for poky"
+SUMMARY = "Very simple session manager for X"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.yoctoproject.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/mx/mx.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/mx/mx.inc
index e3b4b15480..0b02c10627 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/mx/mx.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/mx/mx.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Clutter based widget library"
+SUMMARY = "Clutter based UI widget library"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
 
 inherit clutter
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/pong-clock/pong-clock_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/pong-clock/pong-clock_1.0.bb
index 360f31280e..fe886f536d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/pong-clock/pong-clock_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/pong-clock/pong-clock_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A clock combined with a game of pong"
+SUMMARY = "A clock combined with a game of pong"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 xdmcp xau"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
index 036058aca2..db66f6e553 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/startup-notification/startup-notification_0.12.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Startup-notification contains a reference implementation of the startup notification protocol."
+SUMMARY = "Enables monitoring and display of application startup"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/software/startup-notification/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Specifications"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
index 4ebda8b297..9a2e84ca66 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "startup for weston"
+SUMMARY = "Startup script for the Weston Wayland compositor"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/x11-common_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/x11-common_0.1.bb
index 2df1347860..a2d8885cc7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/x11-common_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/x11-common/x11-common_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Common X11 scripts and configuration files"
+SUMMARY = "Common X11 scripts and configuration files"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SECTION = "x11"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.13.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.13.bb
index 7b3501d9a1..162c2dd6b5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.13.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.13.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Export your X session on-the-fly via VNC"
+SUMMARY = "Exports your X session on-the-fly via VNC"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/"
 
 SECTION = "x11/utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xcursor-transparent-theme/xcursor-transparent-theme_0.1.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xcursor-transparent-theme/xcursor-transparent-theme_0.1.1.bb
index 0dcfbea927..5e668abd40 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xcursor-transparent-theme/xcursor-transparent-theme_0.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xcursor-transparent-theme/xcursor-transparent-theme_0.1.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Transparent xcursor theme for handheld systems"
+SUMMARY = "Transparent X11 cursor theme for touchscreens"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.matchbox-project.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/pointercal-xinput_0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/pointercal-xinput_0.0.bb
index 2e9dc03ead..7a6f79b5a9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/pointercal-xinput_0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/pointercal-xinput_0.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Touchscreen calibration data from xinput-calibrator"
+SUMMARY = "Touchscreen calibration data from xinput-calibrator"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/xinput-calibrator_git.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/xinput-calibrator_git.bb
index 1ffd6d872d..783bcd7e1e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/xinput-calibrator_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xinput-calibrator/xinput-calibrator_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A generic touchscreen calibration program for X.Org"
+SUMMARY = "Touchscreen calibration program for X11"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator"
 LICENSE = "MIT-X"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/calibrator.cpp;endline=22;md5=1bcba08f67cdb56f34021557898e4b5a"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xorg-app-common.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xorg-app-common.inc
index 40508ffedf..524a2d3077 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xorg-app-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-app/xorg-app-common.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "X application"
+SUMMARY = "X application"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.freedesktop.org"
 SECTION = "x11/apps"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xorg-driver-common.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xorg-driver-common.inc
index 5f5d282e54..b46974bc2d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xorg-driver-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xorg-driver-common.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "X driver"
+SUMMARY = "X driver"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.freedesktop.org"
 SECTION = "x11/drivers"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb
index 176bacb617..15e101596a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "X font aliases."
+SUMMARY = "X font aliases"
 
 require xorg-font-common.inc
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-util_1.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-util_1.3.0.bb
index 2e8c7e6eae..8b42991d1c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-util_1.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-util_1.3.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "X.Org font package creation/installation utilities"
+SUMMARY = "X.Org font package creation/installation utilities"
 
 require xorg-font-common.inc
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-proto/xorg-proto-common.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-proto/xorg-proto-common.inc
index 4680d0eeae..625a718560 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-proto/xorg-proto-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-proto/xorg-proto-common.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "X protocol headers: ${XORG_PN}"
+SUMMARY = "X protocol headers: ${XORG_PN}"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-config_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-config_0.1.bb
index b8cd27e67d..57b3c0c97a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-config_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xf86-config_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "X.Org X server configuration file"
+SUMMARY = "X.Org X server configuration file"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org"
 SECTION = "x11/base"
 LICENSE = "MIT-X"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
index ebfb814404..a0283cd014 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-xserver/xserver-xorg.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The X.Org X server"
+SUMMARY = "The X.Org X server"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org"
 SECTION = "x11/base"
 LICENSE = "MIT-X"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-graphics/xvideo-tests/xvideo-tests_git.bb b/meta/recipes-graphics/xvideo-tests/xvideo-tests_git.bb
index bb136a6ab6..27aacde837 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-graphics/xvideo-tests/xvideo-tests_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-graphics/xvideo-tests/xvideo-tests_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Simple XVideo test application"
+SUMMARY = "Simple XVideo test application"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552 \
                     file://src/test-xvideo.c;beginline=1;endline=20;md5=6ae3b4c3c2ff9e51dbbc35bb237afa00"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/blktrace/blktrace_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/blktrace/blktrace_git.bb
index cdb2026255..7a329934b8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/blktrace/blktrace_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/blktrace/blktrace_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "blktrace - generate traces of the I/O traffic on block devices"
+SUMMARY = "Generates traces of I/O traffic on block devices"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb
index 8c68ff3ac8..1a2f881c7a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Scripts and utilities for managing Yocto branched kernels."
+SUMMARY = "Tools for managing Yocto Project style branched kernels"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://git/tools/kgit;beginline=5;endline=9;md5=d8d1d729a70cd5f52972f8884b80743d"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/kmod/depmodwrapper-cross_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/kmod/depmodwrapper-cross_1.0.bb
index 7d3aca2fbf..ec20bf8d30 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/kmod/depmodwrapper-cross_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/kmod/depmodwrapper-cross_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Depmod wrapper script"
+SUMMARY = "Wrapper script for the Linux kernel module dependency indexer"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/latencytop/latencytop_0.5.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/latencytop/latencytop_0.5.bb
index 4b1f16f8d9..af44eb64e1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/latencytop/latencytop_0.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/latencytop/latencytop_0.5.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "LatencyTOP, a Linux tool measuring and fixing latency"
+SUMMARY = "Linux tool for measuring and fixing latency"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.latencytop.org/"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb
index 1b0e11f30f..99ce95b2cf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Firmware files for use with Linux kernel"
+SUMMARY = "Firmware files for use with Linux kernel"
 SECTION = "kernel"
 # Notes:
 # This is kind of a mess. Each bit of firmware has their own license. Some free
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
index f44b61cdb9..3f27afa4c9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Sanitized set of kernel headers for the C library's use."
+SUMMARY = "Sanitized set of kernel headers for the C library's use"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-dummy.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-dummy.bb
index 1c837c9263..3b898f8e0b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-dummy.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-dummy.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SECTION = "kernel"
-DESCRIPTION = "Dummy Linux kernel"
+SUMMARY = "Dummy Linux kernel"
 LICENSE = "GPL"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYING.GPL;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bb
index 594e554871..44a1bfc3f5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/modutils-initscripts/modutils-initscripts.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+SUMMARY = "Initscript for auto-loading kernel modules on boot"
 SECTION = "base"
-DESCRIPTION = "modutils configuration files"
 LICENSE = "PD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=7bf87fc37976e93ec66ad84fac58c098"
 SRC_URI = "file://modutils.sh \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/sysprof/sysprof_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/sysprof/sysprof_git.bb
index 7ffab03320..73e617f219 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/sysprof/sysprof_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/sysprof/sysprof_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "sysprof - System-wide Performance Profiler for Linux"
+SUMMARY = "System-wide Performance Profiler for Linux"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
index 0cfcbe44ac..ab9acba023 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap-uprobes_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "UProbes kernel module for SystemTap"
+SUMMARY = "UProbes kernel module for SystemTap"
 
 require systemtap_git.inc
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_git.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_git.bb
index bcc826a62e..e346ce2440 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/systemtap/systemtap_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "SystemTap - script-directed dynamic tracing and performance analysis tool for Linux"
+SUMMARY = "Script-directed dynamic tracing and performance analysis tool for Linux"
 
 require systemtap_git.inc
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/kernelshark_1.2.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/kernelshark_1.2.bb
index 00e3daad87..9268a506b8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/kernelshark_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/kernelshark_1.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Graphical trace viewer for Ftrace"
+SUMMARY = "Graphical trace viewer for Ftrace"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
                     file://kernel-shark.c;beginline=6;endline=8;md5=2c22c965a649ddd7973d7913c5634a5e"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_1.2.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_1.2.bb
index e9a41d499c..74eafbb530 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_1.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "User interface to Ftrace"
+SUMMARY = "User interface to Ftrace"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
                     file://trace-cmd.c;beginline=6;endline=8;md5=2c22c965a649ddd7973d7913c5634a5e \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-lib_1.0.27.2.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-lib_1.0.27.2.bb
index 0087fafaca..910e72d40d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-lib_1.0.27.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-lib_1.0.27.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "ALSA sound library"
+SUMMARY = "ALSA sound library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.alsa-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/login_page.php"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.26.1.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.26.1.bb
index a18cb466d3..c3b97a31bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.26.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-tools_1.0.26.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Alsa Tools package contains advanced tools for certain sound cards."
+SUMMARY = "Advanced tools for certain ALSA sound card drivers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.alsa-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/login_page.php"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils-alsaconf_1.0.27.2.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils-alsaconf_1.0.27.2.bb
index cacc37cd6f..968c81ee2b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils-alsaconf_1.0.27.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils-alsaconf_1.0.27.2.bb
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 require alsa-utils_${PV}.bb
 
+SUMMARY = "Shell script that creates ALSA configuration files"
+
 FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/alsa-utils:"
 
 PACKAGES = "${PN}"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "bash"
 
-DESCRIPTION_${PN}     = "a bash script that creates ALSA configuration files"
 FILES_${PN} = "${sbindir}/alsaconf"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/alsa-utils-${PV}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.0.27.2.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.0.27.2.bb
index a894171732..325c4652c3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.0.27.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils_1.0.27.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "ALSA Utilities"
+SUMMARY = "ALSA sound utilities"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.alsa-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/login_page.php"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
@@ -59,15 +59,15 @@ FILES_alsa-utils-alsaloop    = "${bindir}/alsaloop"
 FILES_alsa-utils-alsaucm     = "${bindir}/alsaucm"
 
 
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-aplay        = "play (and record) sound files via ALSA"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-amixer       = "command-line based control for ALSA mixer and settings"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-alsamixer    = "ncurses based control for ALSA mixer and settings"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-speakertest  = "ALSA surround speaker test utility"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-midi         = "miscalleanous MIDI utilities for ALSA"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-aconnect     = "ALSA sequencer connection manager"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-aseqnet      = "network client/server on ALSA sequencer"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-alsactl      = "saves/restores ALSA-settings in /etc/asound.state"
-DESCRIPTION_alsa-utils-alsaucm      = "ALSA Use Case Manager"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-aplay        = "Play (and record) sound files using ALSA"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-amixer       = "Command-line control for ALSA mixer and settings"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-alsamixer    = "ncurses-based control for ALSA mixer and settings"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-speakertest  = "ALSA surround speaker test utility"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-midi         = "Miscellaneous MIDI utilities for ALSA"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-aconnect     = "ALSA sequencer connection manager"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-aseqnet      = "Network client/server for ALSA sequencer"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-alsactl      = "Saves/restores ALSA-settings in /etc/asound.state"
+SUMMARY_alsa-utils-alsaucm      = "ALSA Use Case Manager"
 
 RRECOMMENDS_alsa-utils-alsactl = "alsa-states"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mp3_0.10.19.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mp3_0.10.19.bb
index 196a317dbf..47dbc3492b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mp3_0.10.19.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mp3_0.10.19.bb
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 require gst-fluendo.inc
 
+SUMMARY = "Fluendo closed-format mp3 GStreamer plug-in"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=259a43dd1c9854b71fc396f74699f4d2"
 LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"
 
 acpaths = "-I ${S}/common/m4 -I ${S}/m4"
 
-
-DESCRIPTION = "Fluendo closed-format mp3 GStreamer plug-in"
-
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5d95a9a216dd15bc5c00c9414061115c"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "30c79d24d8926f75dd4ef0f572942ce155ad541734b36a95591b9c0524dcc0f3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mpegdemux_0.10.72.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mpegdemux_0.10.72.bb
index f4bdce1cdd..f79015403b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mpegdemux_0.10.72.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo-mpegdemux_0.10.72.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require gst-fluendo.inc
-DESCRIPTION = "Fluendo closed-format mpeg video GStreamer plug-in"
 
+SUMMARY = "Fluendo closed-format mpeg video GStreamer plug-in"
 LICENSE = "MPLv1.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=be282f1c3cc9a98cc0dc5c2b25dfc510 \
                     file://src/gstmpegdemux.h;beginline=1;endline=19;md5=a9e90033f59897b91664d9f2a2ff01dd"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc
index b2c7eea3cb..c7e6595232 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-fluendo.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Fluendo closed-format GStreamer plug-in"
+SUMMARY = "Fluendo closed-format GStreamer plug-in"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.fluendo.com/resources/source-plugins.php"
 DEPENDS = "gstreamer zlib"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-meta-base_0.10.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-meta-base_0.10.bb
index 210da3745e..c273fb7c41 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-meta-base_0.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-meta-base_0.10.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Gstreamer package groups"
+SUMMARY = "GStreamer package groups"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 DEPENDS = "gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/LICENSE;md5=3f40d7994397109285ec7b81fdeb3b58 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
index 4c9716d1ed..b2d3d3c6a1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gst-plugins.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Plugins for GStreamer"
+SUMMARY = "Plugins for the GStreamer multimedia framework"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gstreamer"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-libav.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-libav.inc
index ec5956a735..2b7123bddf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-libav.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-libav.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Libav-based GStreamer 1.x plugin"
+SUMMARY = "Libav-based GStreamer 1.x plugin"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+ & ( (GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+) | (GPLv3+ & LGPLv3+) )"
 LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-omx.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-omx.inc
index 324d3f9c53..b76786bddb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-omx.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-omx.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "OpenMAX IL plugins for GStreamer"
+SUMMARY = "OpenMAX IL plugins for GStreamer"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
 LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins.inc
index 651119e2ed..4ab8ea8eb3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Plugins for GStreamer 1.x"
+SUMMARY = "Plugins for the GStreamer multimedia framework 1.x"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gstreamer"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/lame/lame_3.99.5.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/lame/lame_3.99.5.bb
index 978636af90..ed825d2cff 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/lame/lame_3.99.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/lame/lame_3.99.5.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding."
+SUMMARY = "High quality MP3 audio encoder"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=290&atid=100290"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
index a7f1fae176..6251980eba 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/liba52/liba52_0.7.4.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library for reading some sort of media format."
+SUMMARY = "Library for reading some sort of media format."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://liba52.sourceforge.net/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
index 38d42b03a5..05a8a47631 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library for interacting with ID3 tags."
+SUMMARY = "Library for interacting with ID3 tags in MP3 files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12349&atid=112349"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
index 22bc3feb48..58d68a639b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "MPEG Audio Decoder Library"
+SUMMARY = "MPEG Audio Decoder library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12349&atid=112349"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libomxil/libomxil_0.9.3.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libomxil/libomxil_0.9.3.bb
index bca8836918..f6c6a160f8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libomxil/libomxil_0.9.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libomxil/libomxil_0.9.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Bellagio OpenMAX Integration Layer"
+SUMMARY = "Bellagio OpenMAX Integration Layer"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://omxil.sourceforge.net/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsamplerate/libsamplerate0_0.1.8.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsamplerate/libsamplerate0_0.1.8.bb
index 25e97b4bab..f598b1c2bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsamplerate/libsamplerate0_0.1.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsamplerate/libsamplerate0_0.1.8.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An audio Sample Rate Conversion library"
+SUMMARY = "Audio Sample Rate Conversion library"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsndfile/libsndfile1_1.0.25.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsndfile/libsndfile1_1.0.25.bb
index 0c91fe3d39..d3ec7a8fb7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsndfile/libsndfile1_1.0.25.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libsndfile/libsndfile1_1.0.25.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An audio format Conversion library"
+SUMMARY = "Audio format Conversion library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile"
 AUTHOR = "Erik de Castro Lopo"
 DEPENDS = "sqlite3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.0.3.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.0.3.bb
index d918b5a50b..2400b5471a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.0.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "This software provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF)"
+SUMMARY = "Provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF)"
 LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=34da3db46fab7501992f9615d7e158cf"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb
index f38066a8a9..aee2f3be48 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library and test program for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video streams"
+SUMMARY = "Library and test program for decoding MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 video streams"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
index dce85550a6..103f72ec8c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Pulseaudio is a sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems."
+SUMMARY = "Sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pulseaudio.org"
 AUTHOR = "Lennart Poettering"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/qmmp_0.6.6.bb b/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/qmmp_0.6.6.bb
index 2f5e0d5830..2b84eecab8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/qmmp_0.6.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/qmmp_0.6.6.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Qmmp (Qt-based Multimedia Player) is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library"
+SUMMARY = "Qt-based Multimedia Player"
+DESCRIPTION = "Qmmp is an audio player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp or XMMS."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/quicky_0.4.bb b/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/quicky_0.4.bb
index acacd8e768..bcaa562dbe 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/quicky_0.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt-apps/quicky_0.4.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A simple note-taking application with Wiki-style syntax and behaviour"
+SUMMARY = "A simple note-taking application with Wiki-style syntax and behaviour"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Quicky?content=80325"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://version.h;endline=19;md5=878bdaff438dab86298301fd1a210e14"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt-demo/qt-demo-init_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-qt/qt-demo/qt-demo-init_0.1.bb
index 6cd3e1729a..02695bfebb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt-demo/qt-demo-init_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt-demo/qt-demo-init_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Init script for qtdemo"
+SUMMARY = "Init script for qtdemo"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 SRC_URI = "file://qtdemo-init"
 PR = "r3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4-graphics-system/qt4-graphics-system_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4-graphics-system/qt4-graphics-system_1.0.bb
index e816a90ea8..ff3f3da2bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4-graphics-system/qt4-graphics-system_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4-graphics-system/qt4-graphics-system_1.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Set default Qt4 Graphics System to ${QT_GRAPHICS_SYSTEM}"
+SUMMARY = "Sets default Qt4 Graphics System to ${QT_GRAPHICS_SYSTEM}"
 SECTION = "x11/base"
 LICENSE = "MIT-X"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/nativesdk-qt4-tools.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/nativesdk-qt4-tools.inc
index 2c806e0043..1c9ee2e6ea 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/nativesdk-qt4-tools.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/nativesdk-qt4-tools.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "SDK tools for Qt/[X11|Mac|Embedded] version 4.x"
+SUMMARY = "SDK tools for Qt version 4.x"
 DEPENDS = "nativesdk-zlib nativesdk-dbus nativesdk-libx11 qt4-native"
 SECTION = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt-project.org/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-embedded_1.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-embedded_1.2.0.bb
index 0c30e5fcf4..998de2a055 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-embedded_1.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-embedded_1.2.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Qt Mobility 1.2.0 - version for Qt/Embedded"
+SUMMARY = "Mobile device API extensions for Qt/Embedded 4.x"
 DEPENDS = "qt4-embedded"
 SECTION = "libs"
 qtm_embedded := "embedded"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-x11_1.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-x11_1.2.0.bb
index cd7d5b5897..5fe7bc98bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-x11_1.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-x11_1.2.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Qt Mobility 1.2.0 - version for Qt/X11"
+SUMMARY = "Mobile device API extensions for Qt/X11 4.x"
 DEPENDS = "qt4-x11-free"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
 qtm_embedded := ""
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-native.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-native.inc
index ddb790d3fd..bb16da666a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-native.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-native.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Native version of Qt/[X11|Mac|Embedded]"
+SUMMARY = "Qt version 4 tools and support files for the build host"
 DEPENDS = "zlib-native dbus-native"
 SECTION = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt-project.org/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-rt/rt-tests/rt-tests_0.85.bb b/meta/recipes-rt/rt-tests/rt-tests_0.85.bb
index c3964d2215..ae61092326 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-rt/rt-tests/rt-tests_0.85.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-rt/rt-tests/rt-tests_0.85.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Real-Time preemption testcases"
+SUMMARY = "Real-Time preemption testcases"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Cyclictest"
 SECTION = "tests"
 DEPENDS = "linux-libc-headers virtual/libc"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/gaku/gaku_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/gaku/gaku_git.bb
index dea250af6d..5e1cba55fa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/gaku/gaku_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/gaku/gaku_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Music player"
+SUMMARY = "Simple music player using GTK+ and GStreamer"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552 \
                     file://main.c;beginline=1;endline=20;md5=0c02b4ef945956832b37a036b9cc103a"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/gtk-engines/gtk-sato-engine.inc b/meta/recipes-sato/gtk-engines/gtk-sato-engine.inc
index e5dedad57d..6457feeb3e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/gtk-engines/gtk-sato-engine.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/gtk-engines/gtk-sato-engine.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Sato theme engine for GTK"
+SUMMARY = "Sato theme engine for GTK+"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.o-hand.com"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/leafpad/leafpad_0.8.18.1.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/leafpad/leafpad_0.8.18.1.bb
index 246bc5f023..f124be9a54 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/leafpad/leafpad_0.8.18.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/leafpad/leafpad_0.8.18.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Simple GTK+ Text Editor"
+SUMMARY = "Simple GTK+ Text Editor"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/libowl/libowl_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/libowl/libowl_git.bb
index a6965f05c6..3ccd3406bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/libowl/libowl_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/libowl/libowl_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "OpenedHand Widget Library"
+SUMMARY = "OpenedHand Widget Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.o-hand.com"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-config-gtk/matchbox-config-gtk_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-config-gtk/matchbox-config-gtk_git.bb
index 8103005f19..f0119b7073 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-config-gtk/matchbox-config-gtk_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-config-gtk/matchbox-config-gtk_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox GTK+ theme configuration application."
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox GTK+ theme configuration application"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matchbox-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato_git.bb
index 1b0f9ed5e7..1979cbb769 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato/matchbox-desktop-sato_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Sato desktop folders"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox desktop folders for the Sato environment"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matchbox-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_0.9.1.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_0.9.1.bb
index 30f294baa5..120f086445 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_0.9.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_0.9.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox Window Manager Desktop"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox Window Manager Desktop"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+"
 DEPENDS = "libmatchbox startup-notification"
 SECTION = "x11/wm"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_2.0.bb
index 7775704744..c52e7f2ca4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_2.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox Window Manager Desktop"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox Window Manager Desktop"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ startup-notification"
 SECTION = "x11/wm"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_git.bb
index 003f440142..29b472a933 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-desktop/matchbox-desktop_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox Window Manager Desktop"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox Window Manager Desktop"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matchbox-project.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-keyboard/matchbox-keyboard_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-keyboard/matchbox-keyboard_git.bb
index cecaa99cee..00a75af60e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-keyboard/matchbox-keyboard_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-keyboard/matchbox-keyboard_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox virtual keyboard for X11"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox virtual keyboard for X11"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matchbox-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 SECTION = "x11"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb
index 603f29204f..31d32c6ec8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-panel-2/matchbox-panel-2_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A simple GTK+ based panel for handheld devices."
+SUMMARY = "Simple GTK+ based panel for handheld devices"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://matchbox-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-sato/matchbox-session-sato_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-sato/matchbox-session-sato_0.1.bb
index 5e19396e58..fe84a0fc99 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-sato/matchbox-session-sato_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-sato/matchbox-session-sato_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Custom MB session files for poky"
+SUMMARY = "Custom Matchbox session files for the Sato environment"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.matchbox-project.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-terminal/matchbox-terminal_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-terminal/matchbox-terminal_git.bb
index 432b8eaa98..91fd150e3b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-terminal/matchbox-terminal_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-terminal/matchbox-terminal_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox Terminal"
+SUMMARY = "Lightweight GTK+ terminal application"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.matchbox-project.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-theme-sato/matchbox-theme-sato.inc b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-theme-sato/matchbox-theme-sato.inc
index 797d239eb9..b0f8380f56 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-theme-sato/matchbox-theme-sato.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-theme-sato/matchbox-theme-sato.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Matchbox window manager Sato themes"
+SUMMARY = "Matchbox window manager Sato themes"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.matchbox-project.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/midori/midori_0.5.5.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/midori/midori_0.5.5.bb
index 779561760f..b359037e22 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/midori/midori_0.5.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/midori/midori_0.5.5.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Midori is a lightweight web browser."
+SUMMARY = "A lightweight web browser"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/libowl-av_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/libowl-av_git.bb
index 572132b507..2b768d5916 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/libowl-av_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/libowl-av_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "OpenedHand Widget Library Audio/Video"
+SUMMARY = "OpenedHand Widget Library Audio/Video"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.o-hand.com"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/owl-video_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/owl-video_git.bb
index c88174549c..db83154846 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/owl-video_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/owl-video-widget/owl-video_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "OpenedHand Widget Library video widget"
+SUMMARY = "OpenedHand Widget Library video widget"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://o-hand.com/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_1.1.2.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_1.1.2.bb
index e66aa2acf4..fe25682783 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_1.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/pcmanfm/pcmanfm_1.1.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Fast lightweight tabbed filemanager"
+SUMMARY = "Fast lightweight tabbed filemanager"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/oh-puzzles_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/oh-puzzles_git.bb
index 1de0201ebf..bd762e9315 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/oh-puzzles_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/oh-puzzles_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Portable Puzzle Collection"
+SUMMARY = "Portable Puzzle Collection"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://o-hand.com/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/puzzles_r9765.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/puzzles_r9765.bb
index 242c94a4e3..6d0e48038d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/puzzles_r9765.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/puzzles/puzzles_r9765.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION="Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection"
+SUMMARY = "Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/"
 
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ libxt"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/sato-icon-theme/sato-icon-theme_0.4.1.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/sato-icon-theme/sato-icon-theme_0.4.1.bb
index 2b0b7298d0..ced735f001 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/sato-icon-theme/sato-icon-theme_0.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/sato-icon-theme/sato-icon-theme_0.4.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Sato Icon Theme"
+SUMMARY = "Sato icon theme"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.o-hand.com"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/sato-screenshot/sato-screenshot_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/sato-screenshot/sato-screenshot_git.bb
index 2460e03a5d..a079e03d97 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/sato-screenshot/sato-screenshot_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/sato-screenshot/sato-screenshot_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An ultra-simple screen capture utility, aimed at handheld devices"
+SUMMARY = "Ultra-simple screen capture utility, aimed at handheld devices"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.o-hand.com"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/settings-daemon/settings-daemon_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/settings-daemon/settings-daemon_git.bb
index a11e5a01d1..ba48d90773 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/settings-daemon/settings-daemon_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/settings-daemon/settings-daemon_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Settings-daemon provides a bridge between gconf and xsettings"
+SUMMARY = "Provides a bridge between gconf and xsettings"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://svn.o-hand.com/view/matchbox/trunk/settings-daemon/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/"
 LICENSE = "MIT-style"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
index 8c78b5b117..cd571b15aa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_1.8.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKitK to the GTK+ platform."
+SUMMARY = "WebKit web rendering engine for the GTK+ platform"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.webkitgtk.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugs.webkit.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.5.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.5.2.bb
index ea0f7fbb64..653b1472bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.5.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr-util_1.5.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Apache Portable Runtime (APR) companion library"
+SUMMARY = "Apache Portable Runtime (APR) companion library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://apr.apache.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "apr expat gdbm"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.8.bb b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.8.bb
index d834170315..d23929fd4a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/apr/apr_1.4.8.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library"
+SUMMARY = "Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://apr.apache.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "util-linux"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/aspell/aspell_0.60.6.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/aspell/aspell_0.60.6.1.bb
index b196d9601c..fddc6a53c5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/aspell/aspell_0.60.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/aspell/aspell_0.60.6.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU Aspell spell-checker"
+SUMMARY = "GNU Aspell spell-checker"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 LICENSE="LGPLv2 | LGPLv2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk_2.10.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk_2.10.0.bb
index 2e8216a154..538d6147b2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk_2.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/atk/atk_2.10.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An accessibility toolkit for GNOME."
+SUMMARY = "Accessibility toolkit for GNOME"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://live.gnome.org/GAP/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl.inc b/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl.inc
index b504517237..a46123286e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/attr/acl.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "utilities for access control list"
+SUMMARY = "Utilities for managing POSIX Access Control Lists"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc b/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
index 6deb004b1c..4961ba784f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/attr/attr.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes"
+SUMMARY = "Utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/beecrypt/beecrypt_4.2.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/beecrypt/beecrypt_4.2.1.bb
index 5874f9e2e1..eaab2e311d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/beecrypt/beecrypt_4.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/beecrypt/beecrypt_4.2.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2004-2005, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.  All Rights Reserved
 # Released under the MIT license (see packages/COPYING)
 
-DESCRIPTION="Beecrypt is a general-purpose cryptography library."
+SUMMARY = "A general-purpose cryptography library"
 HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/beecrypt"
 SRC_URI="${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/beecrypt/beecrypt-${PV}.tar.gz \
 	 file://disable-icu-check.patch \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/bjam-native_1.55.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/boost/bjam-native_1.55.0.bb
index 59a031032c..d85d1a96cb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/bjam-native_1.55.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/bjam-native_1.55.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 include boost-${PV}.inc
 
-DESCRIPTION = "Portable Boost.Jam build tool for boost"
+SUMMARY = "Portable Boost.Jam build tool for boost"
 SECTION = "devel"
 
 inherit native
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
index f13051c454..c7642befa4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"
+SUMMARY = "Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "bjam-native zlib bzip2"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb b/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb
index 63da028f81..ebd2dcf1bc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "ConsoleKit is a framework for defining and tracking users, login sessions, and seats."
+SUMMARY = "Framework for defining and tracking users, login sessions, and seats"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit"
 BUGTRACKER="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&product=ConsoleKit"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/createrepo/createrepo_0.4.11.bb b/meta/recipes-support/createrepo/createrepo_0.4.11.bb
index 523d31b82a..159a6c4b27 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/createrepo/createrepo_0.4.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/createrepo/createrepo_0.4.11.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "createrepo creates rpm-metadata for rpms to build the repository"
+SUMMARY = "Creates metadata indexes for RPM package repositories"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://createrepo.baseurl.org/"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.33.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.33.0.bb
index 8539fec2c0..db68feee30 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.33.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.33.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Command line tool and library for client-side URL transfers."
+SUMMARY = "Command line tool and library for client-side URL transfers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://curl.haxx.se/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://curl.haxx.se/mail/list.cgi?list=curl-tracker"
 SECTION = "console/network"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/db/db_5.3.21.bb b/meta/recipes-support/db/db_5.3.21.bb
index 328f9db885..608d406e72 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/db/db_5.3.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/db/db_5.3.21.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # at once - DB3 and DB5 can both be installed on the
 # same system at the same time if really necessary.
 SECTION = "libs"
-DESCRIPTION = "Berkeley DB v5."
+SUMMARY = "Berkeley Database v5"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/index.html"
 LICENSE = "Sleepycat"
 VIRTUAL_NAME ?= "virtual/db"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/enchant/enchant_1.6.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/enchant/enchant_1.6.0.bb
index 5c9359ba72..b8bb27117a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/enchant/enchant_1.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/enchant/enchant_1.6.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Enchant Spell checker API Library"
+SUMMARY = "Enchant Spell checker API Library"
 SECTION     = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.abisource.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Enchant"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.10.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.10.bb
index 498ad9985e..c031f4a6b5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.10.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing."
+SUMMARY = "Key/value database library with extensible hashing"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb
index 28f578cb3e..bcf6b99f61 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing."
+SUMMARY = "Key/value database library with extensible hashing"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.7.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.7.bb
index 7fbc3d39ff..fcc5fba9dd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "gnupg - GNU privacy guard"
+SUMMARY = "GNU Privacy Guard - encryption and signing tools"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/"
 DEPENDS = "zlib bzip2 readline"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.0.22.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.0.22.bb
index 8f572d4504..7f36df5bd3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.0.22.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.0.22.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement (new v2.x)"
+SUMMARY = "GNU Privacy Guard - encryption and signing tools (2.x)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv3"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls.inc b/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls.inc
index 12cc4f114f..18c91eb8cc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU Transport Layer Security Library"
+SUMMARY = "GNU Transport Layer Security Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=gnutls"
 DEPENDS = "zlib lzo libtasn1 libgcrypt (>= 1.4.2) libcap readline"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/libtasn1_3.3.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/libtasn1_3.3.bb
index 53de118458..573d8c8fc3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/libtasn1_3.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/libtasn1_3.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library for ASN.1 and DER manipulation"
+SUMMARY = "Library for ASN.1 and DER manipulation"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & LGPLv2.1+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libassuan/libassuan_2.1.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libassuan/libassuan_2.1.1.bb
index 91784eaa63..4e6b4f8ad6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libassuan/libassuan_2.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libassuan/libassuan_2.1.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "IPC library used by GnuPG and GPGME"
+SUMMARY = "IPC library used by GnuPG and GPGME"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libassuan/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/index"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap.inc b/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap.inc
index 5319bc3564..ccc0fde20c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libcap/libcap.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities"
+SUMMARY = "Library for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/"
 
 # no specific GPL version required
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.11.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.11.bb
index 781b9508a1..7fc352c6d8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libcheck/libcheck_0.9.11.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION  = "Check Test Framework"
+SUMMARY  = "Check - unit testing framework for C code"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://check.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "devel"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libcroco/libcroco_0.6.8.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libcroco/libcroco_0.6.8.bb
index d175c4639d..61cd8182f6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libcroco/libcroco_0.6.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libcroco/libcroco_0.6.8.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The Libcroco project is an effort to build a generic Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit"
+SUMMARY = "Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libdaemon/libdaemon_0.14.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libdaemon/libdaemon_0.14.bb
index bcba1d54b9..a05f86c865 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libdaemon/libdaemon_0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libdaemon/libdaemon_0.14.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "libdaemon is a lightweight C library which eases the writing of UNIX daemons."
+SUMMARY = "libdaemon is a lightweight C library which eases the writing of UNIX daemons."
 SECTION = "libs"
 AUTHOR = "Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libexif/libexif_0.6.21.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libexif/libexif_0.6.21.bb
index 301c25dfa9..736de32eee 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libexif/libexif_0.6.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libexif/libexif_0.6.21.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library to read the extended image information (EXIF) from JPEG pictures"
+SUMMARY = "Library to read the extended image information (EXIF) from JPEG pictures"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libfm/libfm_1.1.2.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libfm/libfm_1.1.2.2.bb
index 97865e1c7c..581ab8c753 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libfm/libfm_1.1.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libfm/libfm_1.1.2.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Library for file management"
+SUMMARY = "Library for file management"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/"
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc b/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc
index 5ab0c11b6c..249939dab9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libgcrypt/libgcrypt.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG"
+SUMMARY = "General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/index"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.12.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.12.bb
index 0b44ea3108..a47e31d167 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libgpg-error/libgpg-error_1.12.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "a small library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components"
+SUMMARY = "Small library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libgpg-error/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/index"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libical/libical_0.48.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libical/libical_0.48.bb
index 459c5c54a0..f464026f8c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libical/libical_0.48.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libical/libical_0.48.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "iCal and scheduling (RFC 2445, 2446, 2447) library"
+SUMMARY = "iCal and scheduling (RFC 2445, 2446, 2447) library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeassociation/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=16077&atid=116077"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 | MPL-1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libksba/libksba_1.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libksba/libksba_1.3.0.bb
index 45bc35a4c1..4690ba953f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libksba/libksba_1.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libksba/libksba_1.3.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Libksba provides an easy API to create and parse X.509 and CMS related objects."
+SUMMARY = "Easy API to create and parse X.509 and CMS related objects"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libksba/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ | LGPLv3+ | GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fd541d83f75d038c4e0617b672ed8bda \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libmpc/libmpc.inc b/meta/recipes-support/libmpc/libmpc.inc
index 0788dc261d..61b71c6f89 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libmpc/libmpc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libmpc/libmpc.inc
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+SUMMARY = "C library for complex number arithmetic with arbitrary precision and correct rounding"
 DESCRIPTION = "Mpc is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result. It is built upon and follows the same principles as Mpfr"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.multiprecision.org/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.2.22.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.2.22.bb
index 3c31b1ac86..73b10c5b66 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.2.22.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libnl/libnl_3.2.22.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "libnl is a library for applications dealing with netlink sockets."
+SUMMARY = "A library for applications dealing with netlink sockets"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/liboil/liboil_0.3.17.bb b/meta/recipes-support/liboil/liboil_0.3.17.bb
index b1e21ab353..03b7785215 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/liboil/liboil_0.3.17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/liboil/liboil_0.3.17.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Liboil is a library of simple functions that are optimized for various CPUs."
+SUMMARY = "Library of simple functions optimized for various CPUs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://liboil.freedesktop.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libproxy/libproxy_0.4.7.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libproxy/libproxy_0.4.7.bb
index 30abc2708c..3838cb880d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libproxy/libproxy_0.4.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libproxy/libproxy_0.4.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A library that provides automatic proxy configuration management"
+SUMMARY = "Library providing automatic proxy configuration management"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/issues/list"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.44.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.44.2.bb
index 3325939c00..a7ea106002 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.44.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libsoup/libsoup-2.4_2.44.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An HTTP library implementation in C"
+SUMMARY = "An HTTP library implementation in C"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.8.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.8.1.bb
index bcdd32ac2a..a9e7b2c899 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.8.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The userspace read-copy update library by Mathieu Desnoyers"
+SUMMARY = "Userspace RCU (read-copy-update) library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://lttng.org/urcu"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://lttng.org/project/issues"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libusb/libusb1_1.0.9.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libusb/libusb1_1.0.9.bb
index 012ac275dd..d57425b3c5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libusb/libusb1_1.0.9.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libusb/libusb1_1.0.9.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Userspace library to access USB (version 1.0)"
+SUMMARY = "Userspace library to access USB (version 1.0)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libusb.sf.net"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://www.libusb.org/report"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.28.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.28.bb
index a1006932e1..24401bb4be 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.28.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/libxslt/libxslt_1.1.28.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNOME XSLT library"
+SUMMARY = "GNOME XSLT library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.06.bb b/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.06.bb
index 187a95aab8..23f54edd80 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.06.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/lzo/lzo_2.06.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Lossless data compression library"
+SUMMARY = "Lossless data compression library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr.inc b/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr.inc
index dbb859fe3e..ecee7314bf 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/mpfr/mpfr.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding"
+SUMMARY = "C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.mpfr.org/"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv3+"
 SECTION = "devel"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.0.bb
index dbc43bbe40..f6c5a6f43c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface."
+SUMMARY = "An HTTP and WebDAV client library with a C interface"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.webdav.org/neon/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth_0.91.bb b/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth_0.91.bb
index 57fe55a9a0..56a9d9b69e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth_0.91.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/npth/npth_0.91.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "New GNU Portable Threads"
+SUMMARY = "New GNU Portable Threads library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/software/pth/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv3+ & GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.10.2.bb b/meta/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.10.2.bb
index b523a9ff52..4db506c806 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.10.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.10.2.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Netscape Portable Runtime Library"
+SUMMARY = "Netscape Portable Runtime Library"
 HOMEPAGE =  "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0 | MPL-2.0 | LGPL-2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://configure.in;beginline=3;endline=6;md5=90c2fdee38e45d6302abcfe475c8b5c5 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/popt/popt_1.16.bb b/meta/recipes-support/popt/popt_1.16.bb
index 32110f22e2..cb13a815e0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/popt/popt_1.16.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/popt/popt_1.16.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "The popt library for parsing command line options."
+SUMMARY = "Library for parsing command line options"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rpm5.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb b/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb
index 8cbab7d822..4a85332035 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/pth/pth_2.0.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU Portable Threads"
+SUMMARY = "GNU Portable Threads library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info.inc b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info.inc
index 93f6010f11..2f7a74e3a0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "shared MIME database and spec"
+SUMMARY = "shared MIME database and spec"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info"
 SECTION = "base"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc
index 064d78cdee..d75363a642 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "An Embeddable SQL Database Engine"
+SUMMARY = "Embeddable SQL database engine"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.sqlite.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "readline ncurses"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/taglib/taglib_1.8.bb b/meta/recipes-support/taglib/taglib_1.8.bb
index 4c151b7c2f..7327bc8c84 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/taglib/taglib_1.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/taglib/taglib_1.8.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of several popular audio formats"
+SUMMARY = "Library for reading and editing the meta-data of popular audio formats"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 | MPL-1"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/user-creation/xuser-account_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/user-creation/xuser-account_0.1.bb
index 58e813918f..77ba97dbf1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/user-creation/xuser-account_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/user-creation/xuser-account_0.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Creates an 'xuser' account"
+SUMMARY = "Creates an 'xuser' account used for running X11"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte.inc b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte.inc
index b653fab279..4081a7fac6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/vte/vte.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "vte is a virtual terminal emulator"
+SUMMARY = "Virtual terminal emulator GTK+ widget library"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=vte"
 LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
 DEPENDS = " glib-2.0 gtk+ intltool-native ncurses gobject-introspection-stub"