diff --git a/dev-build/buildstream-plugins-community/buildstream-plugins-community-2.3.1.ebuild b/dev-build/buildstream-plugins-community/buildstream-plugins-community-2.3.1.ebuild
index a46c7fab61..343d5d740d 100644
--- a/dev-build/buildstream-plugins-community/buildstream-plugins-community-2.3.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-build/buildstream-plugins-community/buildstream-plugins-community-2.3.1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
 
 inherit distutils-r1
 
-DESCRIPTION="A collection of community maintained plugins for the BuildStream project."
+DESCRIPTION="A collection of community maintained plugins for the BuildStream project"
 HOMEPAGE="https://buildstream.gitlab.io/buildstream-plugins-community/"
 SRC_URI="https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream-plugins-community/-/archive/${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 
diff --git a/dev-build/buildstream-plugins/buildstream-plugins-2.7.0.ebuild b/dev-build/buildstream-plugins/buildstream-plugins-2.7.0.ebuild
index 0dd1e5e6c8..89a02197fc 100644
--- a/dev-build/buildstream-plugins/buildstream-plugins-2.7.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-build/buildstream-plugins/buildstream-plugins-2.7.0.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
 
 inherit distutils-r1
 
-DESCRIPTION="A collection of plugins for the BuildStream project."
+DESCRIPTION="A collection of plugins for the BuildStream project"
 HOMEPAGE="https://apache.github.io/buildstream-plugins/"
 SRC_URI="
 	https://github.com/apache/buildstream-plugins/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz
diff --git a/dev-python/pyroaring/pyroaring-1.1.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pyroaring/pyroaring-1.1.0.ebuild
index 2594926e69..99754b2c1d 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyroaring/pyroaring-1.1.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pyroaring/pyroaring-1.1.0.ebuild
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..15} )
 
 inherit distutils-r1 flag-o-matic
 
-DESCRIPTION="Python wrapper for the C library CRoaring."
+DESCRIPTION="Python wrapper for the C library CRoaring"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Ezibenroc/PyRoaringBitMap"
 # tests not included in pypi tarballs
 SRC_URI="