---
name: "update-maintainer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ubuntu-dev-tools"
version: "0.206"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/update-maintainer"
---

# update-maintainer(1)

change the Maintainer field in a Debian source package

## 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 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.