diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d386451..216e464 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Recommends: mate-settings-daemon,
             caja,
             mate-polkit
 Provides: x-session-manager
-Description: MATE Session Manager
+Description: Session manager of the MATE desktop environment
  This package contains a session that can be started from a display
  manager such as MDM. It will load all necessary applications for a
  full-featured user session.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Priority: extra
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          mate-session-manager (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: MATE Session Manager (debugging symbols)
+Description: Session manager of the MATE desktop environment (debug symbols)
  This package contains debugging symbols for mate-session-manager.
  It is provided to help debugging problems.
  The debugging symbols are installed in /usr/lib/debug and will