diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4cb3a25f405..fe1b18c0f1a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ Description: Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced - common catalog files
  Bareos is a set of programs to manage backup, recovery and verification of
  data across a network of computers of different kinds.
  .
- This package provides common files for the Bareos Director daemon.
+ This package provides generic abstraction libs and files to connect the Bareos
+ Director daemon to a database.
 
 
 Package:        bareos-database-postgresql
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 18ef5cd56b9..d2fba415a88 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ Description: Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced - common catalog files
  Bareos is a set of programs to manage backup, recovery and verification of
  data across a network of computers of different kinds.
  .
- This package provides common files for the Bareos Director daemon.
+ This package provides generic abstraction libs and files to connect the Bareos
+ Director daemon to a database.
 
 
 Package:        bareos-database-postgresql
diff --git a/platforms/packaging/bareos.spec b/platforms/packaging/bareos.spec
index d083749de52..3a8c0f11545 100644
--- a/platforms/packaging/bareos.spec
+++ b/platforms/packaging/bareos.spec
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ Requires:   openssl
 Provides:   %{name}-libs
 
 %package    database-common
-Summary:    Generic abstration libs and tools for the sql catalog
+Summary:    Generic abstraction libs and files to connect to a database
 Group:      Productivity/Archiving/Backup
 Requires:   %{name}-common = %{version}
 Requires:   %{name}-database-backend = %{version}