The use of Maintainer in the output of dpkg-parsechangelog is
confusing, because it suggests that dpkg-parsechangelog is reporting
the Maintainer field from debian/control. I suggest Changed-By for consistency with changes files.


- -- Package-specific info:

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii  binutils      2.41-5
ii  bzip2         1.0.8-5+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.22.0
ii  make          4.3-4.1
ii  patch         2.7.6-7
ii  perl          5.36.0-9
ii  tar           1.34+dfsg-1.2
ii  xz-utils      5.4.4-0.1

Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends:
ii  build-essential          12.10
ii  fakeroot                 1.32.1-1
ii  gcc [c-compiler]         4:13.2.0-1
ii  gcc-12 [c-compiler]      12.3.0-9
ii  gcc-13 [c-compiler]      13.2.0-4
ii  gnupg                    2.2.40-1.1
ii  gpgv                     2.2.40-1.1
ii  libalgorithm-merge-perl  0.08-5

Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests:
ii  debian-keyring  2023.05.26

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While that might have perhaps been a better field name, this is now
part of interfaces, both for the command line tool, and the perl
modules. So the only way I can see this could be renamed, if desired,
would be by introducing some kind of versioning for the output, which
could not be the default anyway, so the confusion would linger around
(or might be made worse).

The naming is also used in the description of the debian/changelog
format both in deb-changelog(5) and in the Debian Policy.

In any case, for now, I'm thinking about queueing the attached
documentation patch to try to clarify a bit things, and will ponder
about a possible versioned output.

Regards,
Guillem