diff --git a/app-admin/mei-amt-check/metadata.xml b/app-admin/mei-amt-check/metadata.xml
index e18b02f574c09..91fd90ac48e94 100644
--- a/app-admin/mei-amt-check/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-admin/mei-amt-check/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>mrueg@gentoo.org</email>
-	  <name>Manuel Rüger</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">mjg59/mei-amt-check</remote-id>
   </upstream>