diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index cd21cbe82bb8688185795318c26c1b34a6559772..35cd56438200bb2f49cdc78f69f7a65d9d912288 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${maven:Depends}
 Recommends: ${maven:OptionalDepends}
 Suggests: libjava-xmlbuilder-java-doc
-Description: XML Builder Java library for creating XML documents.  
+Description: XML Builder Java library for creating XML documents
  XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively
  sparse Java code.
  .
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Section: doc
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${maven:DocDepends}
 Recommends: ${maven:DocOptionalDepends}
 Suggests: libjava-xmlbuilder-java
-Description: Documentation forlder Java library for creating XML documents.   
+Description: Documentation for XML Builder Java library for creating XML documents   
  XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively
  sparse Java code.
  .