diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 474063da725e2f4986fd8c5c564a26e2f051c02a..8d615e4b2c9081e20b16fb3931cea5ef951c540c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -29,14 +29,8 @@ build-dep: build-dep/opam phony
 	@# that are incompatible with our build requirements.
 	@# To achieve this, we create a fake opam package that has our build-dependencies as
 	@# dependencies, but does not actually install anything itself.
-	@echo "# Pinning build-dep package." && \
-	  if opam --version | grep "^1\." -q; then \
-	    BUILD_DEP_PACKAGE="$$(egrep "^name:" build-dep/opam | sed 's/^name: *"\(.*\)" */\1/')" && \
-	    opam pin add -k path $(OPAMFLAGS) "$$BUILD_DEP_PACKAGE".dev build-dep && \
-	    opam reinstall $(OPAMFLAGS) "$$BUILD_DEP_PACKAGE"; \
-	  else \
-	    opam install $(OPAMFLAGS) build-dep/; \
-	  fi
+	@echo "# Installing build-dep package."
+	@opam install $(OPAMFLAGS) build-dep/
 
 # Some files that do *not* need to be forwarded to Makefile.coq
 Makefile: ;
diff --git a/descr b/descr
deleted file mode 100644
index fa9d5c7bd4508343fad1febc1f520feb2eb9aa5a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/descr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-This project contains an extended "Standard Library" for Coq called coq-std++.
-The key features of this library are as follows:
-
-- It provides a great number of definitions and lemmas for common data
-  structures such as lists, finite maps, finite sets, and finite multisets.
-- It uses type classes for common notations (like `∅`, `∪`, and Haskell-style
-  monad notations) so that these can be overloaded for different data structures.
-- It uses type classes to keep track of common properties of types, like it
-  having decidable equality or being countable or finite.
-- Most data structures are represented in canonical ways so that Leibniz
-  equality can be used as much as possible (for example, for maps we have
-  `m1 = m2` iff `∀ i, m1 !! i = m2 !! i`). On top of that, the library provides
-  setoid instances for most types and operations.
-- It provides various tactics for common tasks, like an ssreflect inspired
-  `done` tactic for finishing trivial goals, a simple breadth-first solver
-  `naive_solver`, an equality simplifier `simplify_eq`, a solver `solve_proper`
-  for proving compatibility of functions with respect to relations, and a solver
-  `set_solver` for goals involving set operations.
-- It is entirely dependency- and axiom-free.
diff --git a/opam b/opam
index af64e017f850f32ff460ca6f4198bae1e93e323d..e6a5fc6ae1d4a7f7065ee717dcb1e8d4c29130e3 100644
--- a/opam
+++ b/opam
@@ -1,15 +1,38 @@
 opam-version: "1.2"
 name: "coq-stdpp"
-synopsis: "This project contains an extended \"Standard Library\" for Coq called coq-std++"
 maintainer: "Ralf Jung <jung@mpi-sws.org>"
-homepage: "https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/iris/stdpp"
 authors: "Robbert Krebbers, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Ralf Jung"
-bug-reports: "https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/iris/stdpp/issues"
 license: "BSD"
-dev-repo: "https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/iris/stdpp.git"
-build: [make "-j%{jobs}%"]
-install: [make "install"]
-remove: ["rm" "-rf" "%{lib}%/coq/user-contrib/stdpp"]
+homepage: "https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/iris/stdpp"
+bug-reports: "https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/iris/stdpp/issues"
+dev-repo: "git+https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/iris/stdpp.git"
+
+synopsis: "This project contains an extended \"Standard Library\" for Coq called coq-std++"
+description: """
+This project contains an extended "Standard Library" for Coq called coq-std++.
+The key features of this library are as follows:
+
+- It provides a great number of definitions and lemmas for common data
+  structures such as lists, finite maps, finite sets, and finite multisets.
+- It uses type classes for common notations (like `∅`, `∪`, and Haskell-style
+  monad notations) so that these can be overloaded for different data structures.
+- It uses type classes to keep track of common properties of types, like it
+  having decidable equality or being countable or finite.
+- Most data structures are represented in canonical ways so that Leibniz
+  equality can be used as much as possible (for example, for maps we have
+  `m1 = m2` iff `∀ i, m1 !! i = m2 !! i`). On top of that, the library provides
+  setoid instances for most types and operations.
+- It provides various tactics for common tasks, like an ssreflect inspired
+  `done` tactic for finishing trivial goals, a simple breadth-first solver
+  `naive_solver`, an equality simplifier `simplify_eq`, a solver `solve_proper`
+  for proving compatibility of functions with respect to relations, and a solver
+  `set_solver` for goals involving set operations.
+- It is entirely dependency- and axiom-free.
+"""
+
 depends: [
   "coq" { (= "8.7.2") | (= "8.8.2") | (>= "8.9.1" & < "8.12~") | (= "dev") }
 ]
+
+build: [make "-j%{jobs}%"]
+install: [make "install"]