diff --git a/dev-python/openstacksdk/metadata.xml b/dev-python/openstacksdk/metadata.xml
index 8017b0833878d..d71eef6836052 100644
--- a/dev-python/openstacksdk/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/openstacksdk/metadata.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 		<email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Matthew Thode</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-		A collection of libraries for building applications to work with OpenStack clouds.
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">openstack/python-openstacksdk</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">openstacksdk</remote-id>