update-maintainer (1)

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Copyright (c) 2008, Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <rainct@ubuntu.com>
              2010, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com>

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NAME

update-maintainer - change the Maintainer field in a Debian source package

SYNOPSIS

update-maintainer [options]

DESCRIPTION

update-maintainer updates the Maintainer field in the source of an Ubuntu package to match the DebianMaintainerField specification.

OPTIONS

-d PATH, --debian-directory=PATH

location of the debian directory (default: ./debian)

-h, --help

show a help message and exit

-q, --quiet

print no informational messages

SEE ALSO

See wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField for more information.

AUTHOR

update-maintainer has been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com> and this manual page by Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <rainct@ubuntu.com>.

Both are released under the ISC license.