diff --git a/dev-python/os-testr/metadata.xml b/dev-python/os-testr/metadata.xml
index 347fe90bb63b8..4118c7a742e93 100644
--- a/dev-python/os-testr/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/os-testr/metadata.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 		<email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Matthew Thode</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">os-testr</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">openstack/os-testr</remote-id>