--- a/ipkg-build
+++ b/ipkg-build
@@ -101,9 +101,6 @@ You probably want to chown these to a sy
 	arch=`required_field Architecture`
 	[ "$?" -ne 0 ] && PKG_ERROR=1
 
-	required_field Maintainer >/dev/null
-	[ "$?" -ne 0 ] && PKG_ERROR=1
-
 	required_field Description >/dev/null
 	[ "$?" -ne 0 ] && PKG_ERROR=1
 
@@ -114,23 +111,6 @@ You probably want to chown these to a sy
 	    echo "admin, base, comm, editors, extras, games, graphics, kernel, libs, misc, net, text, web, x11" >&2
 	fi
 
-	priority=`required_field Priority`
-	[ "$?" -ne 0 ] && PKG_ERROR=1
-	if [ -z "$priority" ]; then
-	    echo "The Priority field should have one of the following values:" >&2
-	    echo "required, important, standard, optional, extra." >&2
-	    echo "If you don't know which priority value you should be using, then use \`optional'" >&2
-	fi
-
-	source=`required_field Source`
-	[ "$?" -ne 0 ] && PKG_ERROR=1
-	if [ -z "$source" ]; then
-	    echo "The Source field contain the URL's or filenames of the source code and any patches" 
-	    echo "used to build this package.  Either gnu-style tarballs or Debian source packages "
-	    echo "are acceptable.  Relative filenames may be used if they are distributed in the same"
-	    echo "directory as the .ipk file."
-	fi
-
 	disallowed_filename=`disallowed_field Filename`
 	[ "$?" -ne 0 ] && PKG_ERROR=1
 
