diff --git a/app-text/mdbook/metadata.xml b/app-text/mdbook/metadata.xml
index 650c1bc5e5..7e514e65ab 100644
--- a/app-text/mdbook/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/mdbook/metadata.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,4 @@
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">rust-lang/mdBook</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-		mdBook is a utility to create modern online books from Markdown files.
-	</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>