diff --git a/dev-python/appdirs/metadata.xml b/dev-python/appdirs/metadata.xml
index b0d682902c1bf..9437b6404b1fa 100644
--- a/dev-python/appdirs/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/appdirs/metadata.xml
@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@
 		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Python</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-		A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific
-		dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">appdirs</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">ActiveState/appdirs</remote-id>