diff --git a/dev-python/casuarius/metadata.xml b/dev-python/casuarius/metadata.xml
index e70d82229cc15..78e902c3df348 100644
--- a/dev-python/casuarius/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/casuarius/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="project">
-    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Python</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <longdescription lang="en">
   Casuarius is a Cython binding for Cassowary incremental constraint solver.
   The solver source code is derived from the 0.6 release of