diff --git a/app-office/mdbtools/metadata.xml b/app-office/mdbtools/metadata.xml
index 94dd4f54fe1c4..b2cc7340fbaa9 100644
--- a/app-office/mdbtools/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-office/mdbtools/metadata.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
   <maintainer type="person">
     <email>chris.kerr@mykolab.ch</email>
     <name>Chris Kerr</name>
-    <description>Maintainer. Assign bugs to him</description>
   </maintainer>
   <maintainer type="project">
     <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>