diff --git a/dev-vcs/fossil/metadata.xml b/dev-vcs/fossil/metadata.xml
index 2b1ade6960488..5f61527e696ff 100644
--- a/dev-vcs/fossil/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-vcs/fossil/metadata.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 	<maintainer type="person">
 		<email>titanofold@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Aaron W. Swenson</name>
-		<description>Co-Maintainer</description>
 	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="fusefs">Enable the Fuse Filesystem</flag>