A lot of Ubuntu packages have this warning on build:

dpkg-deb: warning: '<package>/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 
'Original-Maintainer'
dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 1 warning about the control file(s)

This warning should be removed as Original-Maintainer is
encouraged in Debian derivatives.

---
 dpkg-deb/build.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/dpkg-deb/build.c b/dpkg-deb/build.c
index 348e01e..b8aa6fa 100644
--- a/dpkg-deb/build.c
+++ b/dpkg-deb/build.c
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ static const char *arbitrary_fields[] = {
   "Installer-Menu-Item",
   "Homepage",
   "Tag",
+  "Original-Maintainer",
   NULL
 };
 
-- 
1.7.9.5


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