diff --git a/dev-python/python-telegram-bot/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-telegram-bot/metadata.xml
index 6be56ff460..220e7f12e2 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-telegram-bot/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/python-telegram-bot/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="project" proxied="proxy">
-        <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-        <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-    </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot</remote-id>
 		<doc>https://docs.python-telegram-bot.org/en/stable/</doc>