Reference

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 <[email protected]> and this manual page by Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <[email protected]>.

Both are released under the ISC license.

History

--debian-directory since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --help since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --quiet since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -d since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -h since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -q since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

--path until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --section until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).