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.

ubuntu-dev-tools                                  December 2010                             UPDATE-MAINTAINER(1)