diff --git a/dev-python/zconfig/metadata.xml b/dev-python/zconfig/metadata.xml
index 6220f67c54baa..5c85d8aae51ae 100644
--- a/dev-python/zconfig/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/zconfig/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
 	<stabilize-allarches/>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">zopefoundation/ZConfig</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/zconfig/zconfig-3.6.0.ebuild b/dev-python/zconfig/zconfig-3.6.0.ebuild
index bf108497ba7ad..b7ca1e463e111 100644
--- a/dev-python/zconfig/zconfig-3.6.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/zconfig/zconfig-3.6.0.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
 inherit distutils-r1
 
@@ -30,7 +29,5 @@ BDEPEND="
 
 DOCS=( CHANGES.rst README.rst )
 
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-py38.patch )
-
 distutils_enable_tests unittest
 distutils_enable_sphinx doc dev-python/sphinxcontrib-programoutput