update-maintainer(1)

update-maintainer1

Change the maintainer field in a debian source package

Usage

update-maintainer [options]

Overview

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

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–13

--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).

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.

From ubuntu-dev-tools 0.206 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.