diff --git a/dev-libs/uthash/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/uthash/metadata.xml
index 4c8b9618963de..d06a284b1eb41 100644
--- a/dev-libs/uthash/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/uthash/metadata.xml
@@ -1,17 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>bugs@bergstroem.nu</email>
-    <name>Johan Bergström</name>
-    <description>Maintainer. Assign bugs to him</description>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <longdescription lang="en">
-  </longdescription>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">troydhanson/uthash</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="sourceforge">uthash</remote-id>