diff --git a/dev-python/openpyxl/metadata.xml b/dev-python/openpyxl/metadata.xml
index 937a24d030a33..ee52e74e72de9 100644
--- a/dev-python/openpyxl/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/openpyxl/metadata.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Python</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">Openpyxl is a pure Python module to read/write
-		Excel 2007 (OpenXML)  xlsx/xlsm files.</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">openpyxl</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="bitbucket">openpyxl/openpyxl</remote-id>