diff --git a/net-libs/libnetconf2/metadata.xml b/net-libs/libnetconf2/metadata.xml
index 200a303877e28..5237f7ce6a2dd 100644
--- a/net-libs/libnetconf2/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-libs/libnetconf2/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="person">
-		<email>jsmolic@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Jakov Smolić</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">CESNET/libnetconf2</remote-id>
 	</upstream>