diff --git a/futures2/Cargo.toml b/futures2/Cargo.toml
index 256c61084..912d2dd20 100644
--- a/futures2/Cargo.toml
+++ b/futures2/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ authors = ["Aaron Turon <aturon@mozilla.com>"]
 license = "MIT/Apache-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio"
 homepage = "https://tokio.rs"
+description = """
+Enables depending on futures 0.2 and futures 0.1 in the same crate.
+"""
 
 [dependencies]
 futures = "=0.2.0-beta"