"Benjamin Drung" <bdr...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am going to rewrite update-maintainer (it's in the ubuntu-dev-tools
>package) to use python-debian. Looking at the current version, I am not
>sure what this tool should exactly do.
>
>I think update-maintainer should do following:
>
>1) Check if "ubuntu" is in the Debian version. Go on to the next step
>if
>yes, otherwise say "Not an Ubuntu package - Nothing to do." and exit.
>
>2) Check if the Maintainer email address has a "@ubuntu.com" or
>"@lists.ubuntu.com". Go on to the next step if no, otherwise say
>"Already maintained by Ubuntu" and exit.

I believe this should substring match on ubuntu in the domain part so 
kubuntu.org or ubuntustudio.org will match.

Scott K

>3) Move the maintainer from the "Maintainer" to
>"XSBC-Original-Maintainer" field and set "Ubuntu Developers
><ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>" as new Maintainer.
>
>Did I oversee something? Is there a use case that is not covered? Any
>other comments? If I receive no comments, I will JFDI [1] and release
>it
>with the next upload of ubuntu-dev-tools.
>
>[1] Just Do It.
>
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