diff --git a/app-portage/epkg/metadata.xml b/app-portage/epkg/metadata.xml
index 34688ac22fa38..b291a268b0320 100644
--- a/app-portage/epkg/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-portage/epkg/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>jdhore@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Jeff Horelick</name>
-  </maintainer>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">jdhore/epkg</remote-id>
   </upstream>