diff --git a/sys-kernel/cryptodev/metadata.xml b/sys-kernel/cryptodev/metadata.xml
index a6622ec9ef6fe..5f8b6780f55a1 100644
--- a/sys-kernel/cryptodev/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-kernel/cryptodev/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,4 @@
 <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 </maintainer>
-<longdescription lang="en">
-</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>