diff --git a/dev-lang/whitespace/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/whitespace/metadata.xml
index 181120c6b8332..6426b8ec8e659 100644
--- a/dev-lang/whitespace/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lang/whitespace/metadata.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>yac@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Jan Matejka</name>
-	</maintainer>
 	<maintainer type="project">
 		<email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Haskell</name>