diff --git a/perl/perl-PHP-Serialization/slack-desc b/perl/perl-PHP-Serialization/slack-desc
index 5997b68972..12e9010cb8 100644
--- a/perl/perl-PHP-Serialization/slack-desc
+++ b/perl/perl-PHP-Serialization/slack-desc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
 
                       |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-perl-PHP-Serialization: perl-PHP-Serialization (convert PHP's serialize() to perl structures)
+perl-PHP-Serialization: perl-PHP-Serialization (convert PHP's serialize()
 perl-PHP-Serialization:
 perl-PHP-Serialization: Provides a simple, quick means of serializing perl memory
 perl-PHP-Serialization: structures (including object data) into a format that PHP can