diff --git a/mage/main_test.go b/mage/main_test.go
index b722d842..cfa22741 100644
--- a/mage/main_test.go
+++ b/mage/main_test.go
@@ -593,7 +593,9 @@ func TestList(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	actual := stdout.String()
 	expected := `
-This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the list of targets.
+This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the
+list of targets.
+
 
 Targets:
   somePig*       This is the synopsis for SomePig.
@@ -629,7 +631,9 @@ func TestListWithColor(t *testing.T) {
 	os.Setenv(mg.TargetColorEnv, mg.Cyan.String())
 
 	expectedPlainText := `
-This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the list of targets.
+This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the
+list of targets.
+
 
 Targets:
   somePig*       This is the synopsis for SomePig.
@@ -642,8 +646,8 @@ Targets:
 	// in the middle and join with a normal string for the target names,
 	// otherwise the single backslash would be taken literally and encoded as \\
 	expectedColorizedText := "" +
-		"This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the list of targets.\n" +
-		"\n" +
+		"This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the\nlist of targets.\n" +
+		"\n\n" +
 		"Targets:\n" +
 		"  \x1b[36msomePig*\x1b[0m       This is the synopsis for SomePig.\n" +
 		"  \x1b[36mtestVerbose\x1b[0m    \n" +
@@ -730,7 +734,9 @@ func TestIgnoreDefault(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	actual := stdout.String()
 	expected := `
-This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the list of targets.
+This is a comment on the package which should get turned into output with the
+list of targets.
+
 
 Targets:
   somePig*       This is the synopsis for SomePig.
diff --git a/parse/parse.go b/parse/parse.go
index 48cf1ece..e5f22fe4 100644
--- a/parse/parse.go
+++ b/parse/parse.go
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ func Package(path string, files []string) (*PkgInfo, error) {
 	pi := &PkgInfo{
 		AstPkg:      pkg,
 		DocPkg:      p,
-		Description: toOneLine(p.Doc),
+		Description: p.Doc,
 	}
 
 	setNamespaces(pi)