diff --git a/dev-python/python-memcached/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-memcached/metadata.xml
index febb3b8158640..71b2011b44aa9 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-memcached/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/python-memcached/metadata.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>robbat2@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Robin H. Johnson</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="project">
 		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Python</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-		This is a Python based API (implemented in 100% python) for communicating with
-		the memcached distributed memory object cache daemon.
-	</longdescription>
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">python-memcached</remote-id>