diff --git a/dev-perl/HTML_Parser/HTML_Parser-3.70.recipe b/dev-perl/HTML_Parser/HTML_Parser-3.70.recipe
index e7ddbaf6f..18e81d1e3 100644
--- a/dev-perl/HTML_Parser/HTML_Parser-3.70.recipe
+++ b/dev-perl/HTML_Parser/HTML_Parser-3.70.recipe
@@ -1,20 +1,35 @@
-#dev-perl/XML-Parser
-DESCRIPTION="HTML-Entities - Encode or decode strings with HTML entities"
+SUMMARY="Encode or decode strings with HTML entities"
 HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Parser/"
 SRC_URI="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.70.tar.gz"
 REVISION="1"
-# only tested on gcc4
-STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
-DEPEND=""
+ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_gcc2"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="efe7699f5ece3a230d730a3682359c08"
+PROVIDES="
+	HTML_Parser = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="perl"
+COPYRIGHT="
+1995-2009 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
+1999-2000 Michael A. Chase.  All rights reserved.
+"
+LICENSE="
+	GNU GPL v1
+	Artistic (Perl)
+"
 
-BUILD {
-	cd HTML-Parser-3.70
+BUILD_REQUIRES="make"
+
+SOURCE_DIR="HTML-Parser-3.70"
+BUILD() {
 	perl Makefile.PL
 	make
 }
 
-INSTALL {
-	cd HTML-Parser-3.70
-	make install DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}"
+INSTALL() {
+	make install DESTDIR=$prefix
 }
+
+DESCRIPTION="
+The HTML-Parser distribution is is a collection of perl modules that parse
+and extract information from HTML documents.
+	"