diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d5407fefa3..793a373d2c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: same
 Depends: ${gir:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Provides: gir1.2-gimpui-3.0 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: Instrospection data for the GIMP library
+Description: Introspection data for the GIMP library
  This package includes the libgimp libraries, which are necessary to run
  GIMP and third-party GIMP plugins.
  .