diff --git a/net-im/telegram-desktop-bin/metadata.xml b/net-im/telegram-desktop-bin/metadata.xml
index 398b85731d098..1eceffe289377 100644
--- a/net-im/telegram-desktop-bin/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-im/telegram-desktop-bin/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
-    <email>henning@hennsch.de</email>
-    <name>Henning Schild</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">telegramdesktop/tdesktop</remote-id>
   </upstream>