diff --git a/sci-physics/SU2/metadata.xml b/sci-physics/SU2/metadata.xml
index 361d8a68fc..41dce6ab06 100644
--- a/sci-physics/SU2/metadata.xml
+++ b/sci-physics/SU2/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>torokhov-s-a@yandex.ru</email>
-    <name>Sergey Torokhov</name>
-  </maintainer>
+  <!-- maintainer-needed -->
   <use>
     <flag name="autodiff">Enable support for reverse automatic differentiation</flag>
     <flag name="cgns">Build with CGNS support</flag>