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diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
index 4d66ff6de6..efffa92692 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ in compression.")
;; FIXME: The test suite wants `less', and optionally Perl.
'(#:tests? #f))
(description
- "GNU Gzip is a data compression and decompression program.")
+ "GNU Gzip provides data compression and decompression utilities; the
+typical extension is \".gz\". Unlike the \"zip\" format, it compresses a single
+file; as a result, it is often used in conjunction with \"tar\", resulting in
+\".tar.gz\" or \".tgz\", etc.")
(license license:gpl3+)
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/")))
@@ -278,9 +281,8 @@ archiving. Lzip is a clean implementation of the LZMA algorithm.")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/")
(synopsis "Archives in shell scripts, uuencode/uudecode")
(description
- "GNU sharutils is a package for manipulating shell archives. Shell
-archives are collections of files that can be unpacked using only the shell;
-an archive is a self-extracting shell script. The tools in the Sharutils
-package make working with shell archives more robust, offering compression,
-file-splitting and simple checksums.")
+ "GNU sharutils is a package for creating and manipulating shell
+archives that can be readily emailed. A shell archive is a file that can be
+processed by a Bourne-type shell to unpack the original collection of files.
+This package is mostly for compatibility and historical interest.")
(license license:gpl3+)))