diff --git a/media-gfx/svg2rlg/metadata.xml b/media-gfx/svg2rlg/metadata.xml
index 3bb3a6f92bfae..9563deaff36d9 100644
--- a/media-gfx/svg2rlg/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-gfx/svg2rlg/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Python</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
 		The tool can be used as a console application to convert SVG to PDF
 		files.