diff --git a/dev-python/pybloomfiltermmap/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pybloomfiltermmap/metadata.xml
index 5f6041eae792e..253d5537b3bc6 100644
--- a/dev-python/pybloomfiltermmap/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pybloomfiltermmap/metadata.xml
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">pybloomfiltermmap</remote-id>
 	</upstream>