diff --git a/x11-misc/xxkb/metadata.xml b/x11-misc/xxkb/metadata.xml
index 885a0aff06787..c1da2d8e30862 100644
--- a/x11-misc/xxkb/metadata.xml
+++ b/x11-misc/xxkb/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>desktop-misc@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Gentoo Desktop Miscellaneous Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
+<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="sourceforge">xxkb</remote-id>
 	</upstream>