diff --git a/dev-lua/mpack/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/mpack/metadata.xml
index 9afcf4848c6b4..ee1dc59095160 100644
--- a/dev-lua/mpack/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lua/mpack/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>lluixhi@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Aric Belsito</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">tarruda/libmpack</remote-id>
 	</upstream>