diff --git a/dev-python/doc8/metadata.xml b/dev-python/doc8/metadata.xml
index a0056aa48f117..3fbfacff96907 100644
--- a/dev-python/doc8/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/doc8/metadata.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 		<email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Matthew Thode</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">doc8</remote-id>
 	</upstream>