diff --git a/gis/postgis/slack-desc b/gis/postgis/slack-desc
index 42451ec521..95a6a4a060 100644
--- a/gis/postgis/slack-desc
+++ b/gis/postgis/slack-desc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
 
        |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-postgis: PostGIS (support for geographic objects in PostgreSQL)
+postgis: postgis (support for geographic objects in PostgreSQL)
 postgis:
 postgis: PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL
 postgis: database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL