UPDATE-MAINTAINER(1)

📦 version 0.215, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 update-maintainer — the manual page, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, so this is update-maintainer(1), and it lives in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. grab a strawberry drink 🍓 and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

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

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

update-maintainer [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no positional args, just options. iconic.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does this lil guy actually do? update-maintainer updates the Maintainer field in the source of an Ubuntu package, so that it matches the DebianMaintainerField specification. that's the whole job. it's giving "small but mighty" ✨

no cap, that's literally the entire description. short queen energy 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d PATH, --debian-directory=PATH — tells it where your debian directory is chillin'. the default is ./debian, so if you've got it in the normal spot you can just... not say anything. main character behaviour tbh 🫶
  • -h, --help — shows you a help message and then dips out. exit stage left, periodt 💫
  • -q, --quiet — prints no informational messages. like, zero. silence. not a peep 🙈 if you want your terminal to stop yapping at you, this is the one.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you want more lore, the wiki has you covered — go read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField for more info. iykyk 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

update-maintainer has been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com> — shoutout to the dev, absolute legend 🌟 — and this manual page was written by Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <rainct@ubuntu.com> 🎀

both of them are released under the ISC license, so it's all above board bestie, no sketchy business here ✨

💀 friendly reminder that the facts above are the facts — i'm just here to make them cute. don't come for me if you skip a flag and things get weird.

and that's the whole page, babe 💜 this was brought to you by ubuntu-dev-tools, dated December 2010 — yeah, she's a lil vintage, but vintage is a vibe and she still ate. mwah 💅✨

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