diff --git a/sci-misc/h5utils/metadata.xml b/sci-misc/h5utils/metadata.xml
index bddb6ae865510..ed9a209e703b2 100644
--- a/sci-misc/h5utils/metadata.xml
+++ b/sci-misc/h5utils/metadata.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
   formats required by other free visualization software (e.g. plain
   text, Vis5d, and VTK).
 </longdescription>
+<upstream>
+  <remote-id type="github">NanoComp/h5utils</remote-id>
+</upstream>
 <use>
   <flag name="octave">Build Octave plugins</flag>
   <flag name="hdf">Build hdf to hdf5 (and vice-versa) converter</flag>