diff --git a/dev-libs/pthreads4w/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/pthreads4w/metadata.xml
index 30aaf1fdc57cf..64fda0eeda3ec 100644
--- a/dev-libs/pthreads4w/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/pthreads4w/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>haubi@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Michael Haubenwallner</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 		Also known as "pthreads-win32", POSIX Threads for Windows implements a large
 		subset of the threads related API from the Single Unix Specification Version 3.