diff --git a/dev-python/authheaders/metadata.xml b/dev-python/authheaders/metadata.xml
index 1fc8047f91767..3ee70120def48 100644
--- a/dev-python/authheaders/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/authheaders/metadata.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,4 @@
 		<email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Matthew Thode</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-			This is a Python library for the generation of email authentication headers.
-	</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>