diff --git a/sci-mathematics/msieve/metadata.xml b/sci-mathematics/msieve/metadata.xml
index 64f7021322223..1b40d2cd9690f 100644
--- a/sci-mathematics/msieve/metadata.xml
+++ b/sci-mathematics/msieve/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="person">
-    <email>patrick@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Patrick Lauer</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <use>
     <flag name="ecm">Enable support for the GMP-ECM library</flag>
   </use>