diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 34670c95..006bfaf5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ llvm-toolchain-snapshot (1:4.0~svn275970-1~exp2) experimental; urgency=medium
     Thanks to Brad King of the fix
   * Disable lldb on sparc64 (Closes: #832371)
   * Also install clang-rename.el & clang-rename.py in clang-4.0
+  * scan-build llvm results are built using --show-description
 
  -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:19:52 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a295a106..7f8dfa2c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ ifneq (,$(filter scan-build,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 # The package are installed through the variable declarations:
 # OTHERMIRROR="deb http://llvm.org/apt/unstable/ llvm-toolchain main"
 # EXTRAPACKAGES="clang-3.5"
-	PRE_PROCESS=scan-build-$(LLVM_VERSION) -analyzer-config stable-report-filename=true -enable-checker optin.performance.Padding
+	PRE_PROCESS=scan-build-$(LLVM_VERSION) --show-description -analyzer-config stable-report-filename=true -enable-checker optin.performance.Padding
 	PRE_PROCESS_CONF=scan-build-$(LLVM_VERSION)
 # no need to run tests in this case
 	DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS+=" nocheck"