diff --git a/dev-lua/messagepack/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/messagepack/metadata.xml
index 0c5e18959377c..5291ff50f05e1 100644
--- a/dev-lua/messagepack/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lua/messagepack/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>yngwin@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Ben de Groot</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <use>
     <flag name="luajit">
       Use the lua just-in-time compiler <pkg>dev-lang/luajit</pkg> instead of