diff --git a/dev-util/ketchup/metadata.xml b/dev-util/ketchup/metadata.xml
index e335daf768d97..2f0baa001dad3 100644
--- a/dev-util/ketchup/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/ketchup/metadata.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>psomas@gentoo.org</email>
-	</maintainer>
 	<longdescription>
 		Ketchup allows quick and easy following of/or switching between stable,
 		-git, -rc, -mm, -rt (Ingo Molnar's realtime kernel), -ck, and other