diff --git a/cookbooks-internal/router/README.md b/cookbooks-internal/router/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/cookbooks-internal/router/metadata.rb b/cookbooks-internal/router/metadata.rb
index 490a9cb..665593e 100644
--- a/cookbooks-internal/router/metadata.rb
+++ b/cookbooks-internal/router/metadata.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 maintainer_email  "fnichol@nichol.ca"
 license           "Apache 2.0"
 description       "Quick and dirty NAT router with iptables"
-long_description  IO.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'README.md'))
+long_description  "Quick and dirty NAT router with iptables"
 version           "0.1.0"
 
 supports "ubuntu"