[Sami Haahtinen] > like 'dpkg --show-primary-contact <package>' That way we could even > add a separate field Preferred-Contact: (or something alike) that > could override the maintainer and modifier.
"Preferred contact" is *exactly* what the Maintainer field means. [Well, and the co-maintainers ("Uploaders") field, as a supplement.] Debian people who have a problem with downstream changing the Maintainer field need to get over themselves and think about whether debian/changelog gives them all the credit they are owed. (It certainly does, unless it's been abridged.)
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