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UPDATE-MAINTAINER(1) General Commands Manual UPDATE-MAINTAINER(1)

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

location of the debian directory (default: ./debian)
show a help message and exit
print no informational messages

SEE ALSO

See https://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.

December 2010 ubuntu-dev-tools