diff --git a/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml b/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml
index 027ab1d7677e4..a6345fc847779 100644
--- a/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
     <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Python</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <longdescription>
-    Interactive HTML widgets for Jupyter notebooks and the IPython kernel.
-  </longdescription>
   <stabilize-allarches/>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">ipywidgets</remote-id>