diff --git a/dev-ruby/rb-readline/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/rb-readline/metadata.xml
index 0c0af58712406..5ec5e35676824 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/rb-readline/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-ruby/rb-readline/metadata.xml
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 		<email>ruby@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Ruby Project</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="rubygems">rb-readline</remote-id>
 	</upstream>