diff --git a/dev-python/distributed/metadata.xml b/dev-python/distributed/metadata.xml
index e694f5c7aa297..f21b359c5020c 100644
--- a/dev-python/distributed/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/distributed/metadata.xml
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@
     <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Python</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <longdescription lang="en">
 
-  </longdescription>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">distributed</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="github">dask/distributed</remote-id>