diff --git a/dev-haskell/pandoc-types/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/pandoc-types/metadata.xml
index 39e4e9303f273..b7878815d80dd 100644
--- a/dev-haskell/pandoc-types/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-haskell/pandoc-types/metadata.xml
@@ -5,14 +5,4 @@
 		<email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription>
-		This package contains definitions for the <pkg>app-text/pandoc</pkg> data
-		structure, which is used by pandoc to represent
-		structured documents.  These definitions used to live
-		in the pandoc package, but starting with pandoc 1.7, they
-		have been split off, so that other packages can use them
-		without drawing in all of pandoc's dependencies, and
-		pandoc itself can depend on packages (like <pkg>dev-haskell/citeproc-hs</pkg>)
-		that use them.
-	</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>