diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index bac601fbf82e..dde31a2c0c01 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@
 /pkgs/applications/editors/eclipse @rycee
 
 # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/31401
-/lib/maintainers.nix @ghost
 /lib/licenses.nix @ghost
 
 # Qt / KDE
diff --git a/doc/meta.xml b/doc/meta.xml
index 356325991860..5dbe810810d1 100644
--- a/doc/meta.xml
+++ b/doc/meta.xml
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ meta-attributes</title>
     maintainers of this Nix expression. If
     you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may want to add
     yourself to <link
-    xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/maintainers.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/lib/maintainers.nix</filename></link>
+    xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix</filename></link>
     and write something like <literal>[ stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice
     stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob ]</literal>.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/hydra-eval-failures.py b/maintainers/scripts/hydra-eval-failures.py
index ddc3c7c4a967..d0bd1913ba8a 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/hydra-eval-failures.py
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/hydra-eval-failures.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
 
 
 maintainers_json = subprocess.check_output([
-    'nix-instantiate', '-E', 'import ./lib/maintainers.nix {}', '--eval', '--json'
+    'nix-instantiate', '-E', 'import ./maintainers/maintainer-list.nix {}', '--eval', '--json'
 ])
 maintainers = json.loads(maintainers_json)
 MAINTAINERS = {v: k for k, v in maintainers.iteritems()}
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/update.nix b/maintainers/scripts/update.nix
index c637540a5aa4..8d1e47c6bc95 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/update.nix
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/update.nix
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ let
     let
       maintainer =
         if ! builtins.hasAttr maintainer' pkgs.lib.maintainers then
-          builtins.throw "Maintainer with name `${maintainer'} does not exist in `lib/maintainers.nix`."
+          builtins.throw "Maintainer with name `${maintainer'} does not exist in `maintainers/maintainer-list.nix`."
         else
           builtins.getAttr maintainer' pkgs.lib.maintainers;
     in
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/vanity.sh b/maintainers/scripts/vanity.sh
index 27e7741799f0..aa7d4ec967da 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/vanity.sh
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/vanity.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ git_data="$(echo "$raw_git_log" | grep 'Author:' |
 
 # Name - nick - email correspondence from log and from maintainer list
 # Also there are a few manual entries
-maintainers="$(cat "$(dirname "$0")/../../lib/maintainers.nix" |
+maintainers="$(cat "$(dirname "$0")/../maintainer-list.nix" |
   grep '=' | sed -re 's/\\"/''/g;
   s/[ 	]*([^ 	=]*)[ 	]*=[ 	]*" *(.*[^ ]) *[<](.*)[>] *".*/\1\t\2\t\3/')"
 git_lines="$( ( echo "$git_data";