diff --git a/app-misc/utimer/metadata.xml b/app-misc/utimer/metadata.xml
index b67a73c471a92..3a1e9599ee610 100644
--- a/app-misc/utimer/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-misc/utimer/metadata.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,4 @@
 <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 </maintainer>
-<longdescription lang="en">
-</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>