diff --git a/app-backup/borgbackup/metadata.xml b/app-backup/borgbackup/metadata.xml
index 8f01c97867d4f..d44a5ed88690d 100644
--- a/app-backup/borgbackup/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-backup/borgbackup/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>slashbeast@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Piotr Karbowski</name>
-	</maintainer>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">borgbackup/borg</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">borgbackup</remote-id>