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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index deb6224..d369af1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,15 +11,24 @@ Package: quilt
 Architecture: any
 Depends: patch, diffstat, bzip2, gettext, gawk
 Suggests: ccache
-Description: Scripts for working with series of patches
- The scripts allow to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the
- changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed,
- etc. The key philosophical concept is that your primary output is patches.
- Not ".c" files, not ".h" files.  But patches.  So patches are the
- first-class object here.
+Description: Tool to work with series of patches
+ Quilt manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes
+ each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can
+ apply, un-apply, refresh them easily by traveling into the stack (push/pop).
  .
- This package also provide some basic support to build debian package and
- handling the diffs with quilt.
- .	 
- These scripts are based on Andrew Morton's patch scripts posted a while ago
- on the linux-kernel mailing-list, but were heavily modified since then.
+ Quilt is good for managing additional packages applied to to a package
+ received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The
+ stacked organization proved to be efficient for the management of very
+ large patch sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was
+ designed by and for linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm
+ branch, is the original author), and its main use by the current upstream
+ maintainer is to manage the patches against the kernel made for the Suse
+ distribution. 
+ .
+ This package completely integrates into the CDBS, allowing maintainers
+ using this new paradigm for their packaging script to benefit of the quilt
+ comfort when editing their diff against upstream. The package also provide
+ some basic support for the fool not using CDBS (yet).
+ . 
+ http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt is the current best approximation
+ of an upstream homepage.