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NAME

       update-maintainer  -  change  the  Maintainer  field in a Debian source
       package

SYNOPSIS

       update-maintainer [--path=<PATH>] [--section=<SECTION>]

DESCRIPTION

       update-maintainer updates the Maintainer field  in  the  source  of  an
       Ubuntu package to match the DebianMaintainerField specification.

OPTIONS

       --path=<PATH>
              This  option  allows  you  to  specify  the  path  to the source
              directory.

       --section=<SECTION>
              Manually specify the section of the package. This  is  necessary
              if the package is not yet in the archive or if you don't have an
              Internet connection available when you run update-maintainer.

SEE ALSO

       See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField for more information.

AUTHOR

       update-maintainer     has    been    written    by    Albin    Tonnerre
       <lut1n.tne@gmail.com> and this manual page by Siegfried-Angel  Gevatter
       Pujals <rainct@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.