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diff --git a/dev-haskell/hdbc/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/hdbc/metadata.xml
index 8c66906af531..264dad1d2a84 100644
--- a/dev-haskell/hdbc/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-haskell/hdbc/metadata.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
-<herd>haskell</herd>
-<maintainer>
- <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
-</maintainer>
+ <herd>haskell</herd>
+ <maintainer>
+ <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription>
+ HDBC provides an abstraction layer between Haskell programs and SQL
+ relational databases. This lets you write database code once, in
+ Haskell, and have it work with any number of backend SQL databases
+ (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, ODBC-compliant databases, etc.)
+ </longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>