diff --git a/app-text/xlsx2csv/metadata.xml b/app-text/xlsx2csv/metadata.xml
index 4b2ed89ad35af..69984cfb9abbd 100644
--- a/app-text/xlsx2csv/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/xlsx2csv/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>radhermit@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Tim Harder</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">xlsx2csv</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="github">dilshod/xlsx2csv</remote-id>