ubuntu-dev-tools/update-maintainer

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright 2007 (C) Albin Tonnerre (Lutin) <lut1n.tne@gmail.com>
# License: GPLv2
#
# This script is used to update the maintainer field of an Ubuntu package
# to match the DebianMaintainerField specification.

for argv in "$@"; do
    param=${argv%=*}
    value=${argv#*=}
    case $param in
        "--path")    path="$value"  ;;
        "--section") section=$value ;;
        "--help")    echo -e "Options: \n --path=PATH : specify the path of the source folder\n --section=SECTION : specify the section of the package (if the package is not yet in the archive or if you don't have the gutsy source repo in your sources.list)"; exit 0         ;;
        *)           echo "Bad parameter, please use --help" >&2; exit 1 ;;
    esac
done

cd ${path-.}

# look for the debian directory
if [ -f debian/control -a -f debian/changelog ]; then
    DEBIANDIR=debian
elif [ -f control -a -f changelog ]; then
    DEBIANDIR=.
else
    echo "Please execute «$0» in the source folder." >&2 && exit 1
fi

[ -n "$(head -1 $DEBIANDIR/changelog | grep -E '\(*ubuntu.*\)')" ] &&
! grep -E "^Maintainer: .*@.*ubuntu.*>" $DEBIANDIR/control >/dev/null || \
{ echo "Not an Ubuntu package or already maintained by the Ubuntu team." >&2; \
exit 1; }

if [ -z "$section" ]; then
    DISTRO=$(sed -r '1!d;s/.*\) (.*);.*/\1/' $DEBIANDIR/changelog|cut -d'-' -f1)
    pkgline=$(apt-cache madison $(head -1 $DEBIANDIR/changelog| cut -d' ' -f1)|\
        grep -m 1 "$DISTRO.*Sources")
    if [ -z "$pkgline" ]; then
        echo "You don't have $DISTRO in your source repos." >&2
        exit 1
    fi
    section=$(echo $pkgline | grep -Eo "main|universe|multiverse|restricted")
fi
case $section in
    "main"|"restricted")        email="Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>"  ;;
    "universe"|"multiverse")    email="Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>"           ;;
    *)      echo "No section found for this package; aborting" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac

for file in control{,.in,.real}; do
    [ -f $DEBIANDIR/$file ] && sed -ri "s/(^Maintainer:) (.*)/\1 $email\nXSBC-Original-\1 \2/" $DEBIANDIR/$file
done

dch "Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField specification."
echo "Maintainer changed to $email."