diff --git a/academic/parmetis/slack-desc b/academic/parmetis/slack-desc
index 08bbd12e90..c4078e11fb 100644
--- a/academic/parmetis/slack-desc
+++ b/academic/parmetis/slack-desc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
 
         |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-parmetis: parmetis (parallel library) 
+parmetis: parmetis (parallel library)
 parmetis:
 parmetis:
 parmetis: ParMETIS is an MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety