diff --git a/dev-python/line_profiler/metadata.xml b/dev-python/line_profiler/metadata.xml
index a5ab15f426713..646d50c3d2b70 100644
--- a/dev-python/line_profiler/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/line_profiler/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     <email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Proxy Maintainers Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <longdescription>
     line_profiler is a module for doing line-by-line profiling of
     functions. kernprof is a convenient script for running either