diff --git a/app-shells/mcfly/metadata.xml b/app-shells/mcfly/metadata.xml
index e2f80ba8812a7..d3d189231d332 100644
--- a/app-shells/mcfly/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-shells/mcfly/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>mmk@levelnine.at</email>
-		<name>Michael Mair-Keimberger</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		McFly replaces your default ctrl-r Bash history search with an intelligent search engine
 		that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed commands.