diff --git a/dev-lua/ldoc/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/ldoc/metadata.xml
index c61dd62358443..dd178f974d1d1 100644
--- a/dev-lua/ldoc/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lua/ldoc/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>t@tomoyat1.com</email>
-		<name>Tomoya Tabuchi</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainer</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!--maintainer-needed-->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		LDoc is a LuaDoc-compatible documentation generation system.
 	</longdescription>
diff --git a/x11-wm/awesome/metadata.xml b/x11-wm/awesome/metadata.xml
index 6798285a96fc5..a3b3ef7589054 100644
--- a/x11-wm/awesome/metadata.xml
+++ b/x11-wm/awesome/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>t@tomoyat1.com</email>
-		<name>Tomoya Tabuchi</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Gentoo Proxy Maintainers Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="person">
 		<email>maksbotan@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Maxim Koltsov</name>