[Bug 902233] [NEW] submittodebian should intelligently filter changes to the Maintainer field out of the debdiff

[Steve Langasek]

Public bug reported:

Whenever I run submittodebian, I wind up having to manually edit my
debdiff to filter out the change from update-maintainer.  I'm very
paranoid about this, because I don't want Debian maintainers to ever get
the impression that I'm proposing that Ubuntu take over maintenance of
the package.  This is a lot of manual work each time that could be
automated.

I would like submittodebian to intelligently filter this change out of
the debdiffs it generates, either by creating temporary copies of
debian/control* with the change reverted that it can then diff against,
or by cleverly post-processing the diff.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.136
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-3.3-generic 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec  9 08:27:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (30 days ago)

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity

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  submittodebian should intelligently filter changes to the Maintainer
  field out of the debdiff

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