diff --git a/dev-util/bats/metadata.xml b/dev-util/bats/metadata.xml
index d65f42192294f..b8f6a46a9071f 100644
--- a/dev-util/bats/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/bats/metadata.xml
@@ -4,12 +4,10 @@
 	<maintainer type="person">
 		<email>nelo@wallus.de</email>
 		<name>Nelo-Thara Wallus</name>
-		<description>Proxied by Polynomial-C</description>
 	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="person">
 		<email>polynomial-c@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Lars Wendler</name>
-		<description>Proxy maintainer for Nelo</description>
 	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">sstephenson/bats</remote-id>