diff --git a/etc/spack/defaults/packages.yaml b/etc/spack/defaults/packages.yaml
index aaddf5ac6b..24d19ac4cb 100644
--- a/etc/spack/defaults/packages.yaml
+++ b/etc/spack/defaults/packages.yaml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ packages:
       xxd: [xxd-standalone, vim]
       yacc: [bison, byacc]
       ziglang: [zig]
-      zlib-api: [zlib, zlib-ng+compat]
+      zlib-api: [zlib-ng+compat, zlib]
     permissions:
       read: world
       write: user
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zlib-ng/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zlib-ng/package.py
index a5615574ec..c02ca28a86 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zlib-ng/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/zlib-ng/package.py
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ class ZlibNg(AutotoolsPackage, CMakePackage):
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng"
     url = "https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/archive/2.0.0.tar.gz"
+    git = "https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng.git"
+
+    maintainers("haampie")
 
     version("2.1.3", sha256="d20e55f89d71991c59f1c5ad1ef944815e5850526c0d9cd8e504eaed5b24491a")
     version("2.1.2", sha256="383560d6b00697c04e8878e26c0187b480971a8bce90ffd26a5a7b0f7ecf1a33")