diff --git a/dev-python/pyacoustid/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pyacoustid/metadata.xml
index bf5d024766564..773173d307b03 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyacoustid/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pyacoustid/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>sir.suriv@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Diogo Pereira</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		Chromaprint and its associated Acoustid Web service make up a high-quality, open-source acoustic fingerprinting system. This package provides Python bindings for both the fingerprinting algorithm library, which is written in C but portable, and the Web service, which provides fingerprint lookups.
 	</longdescription>