diff --git a/dev-python/sphinxcontrib-newsfeed/metadata.xml b/dev-python/sphinxcontrib-newsfeed/metadata.xml
index 1c9104aadb130..68a6a99fb5f80 100644
--- a/dev-python/sphinxcontrib-newsfeed/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/sphinxcontrib-newsfeed/metadata.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 		<email>alunduil@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Alex Brandt</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">sphinxcontrib-newsfeed</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="bitbucket">prometheus/sphinxcontrib-newsfeed</remote-id>