diff --git a/dev-python/python-glanceclient/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-glanceclient/metadata.xml
index 43bba1528f6c7..9196a5b2dbdc4 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-glanceclient/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/python-glanceclient/metadata.xml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
     <email>openstack@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Openstack</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <longdescription lang="en">
-    This is a client for the OpenStack Glance API.
-  </longdescription>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">python-glanceclient</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="github">openstack/python-glanceclient</remote-id>