diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+## yesod-core
+
+This is the main package for Yesod, providing all core functionality on which
+other packages can be built. It provides dispatch, handler functions, widgets,
+etc.
+
+Yesod is well documented on [its website](http://www.yesodweb.com/).
diff --git a/yesod-core.cabal b/yesod-core.cabal
--- a/yesod-core.cabal
+++ b/yesod-core.cabal
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 name:            yesod-core
-version:         1.4.4.2
+version:         1.4.4.3
 license:         MIT
 license-file:    LICENSE
 author:          Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
 maintainer:      Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
 synopsis:        Creation of type-safe, RESTful web applications.
-description:
-    Yesod is a framework designed to foster creation of RESTful web application that have strong compile-time guarantees of correctness. It also affords space efficient code and portability to many deployment backends, from CGI to stand-alone serving.
-    .
-    The Yesod documentation site <http://www.yesodweb.com/> has much more information, tutorials and information on some of the supporting packages, like Hamlet and Persistent.
+description:     See README.md
 category:        Web, Yesod
 stability:       Stable
 cabal-version:   >= 1.8
@@ -22,6 +19,7 @@
   test/en.msg
   test/test.hs
   changelog.md
+  README.md
 
 library
     build-depends:   base                  >= 4.3      && < 5