A number of fields in the debian packaging and repository are names
and email addresses.

In the repository InRelease (etc) files we have one of
Origin: Seb Kuzminsky <seb@...>
Origin: Chris Radek <chris@...>

I have had problems installing packages when I changed this. (see also
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1090676/how-to-update-google-chrome-70-after-change-in-origin-value
) But I have not been able to reproduce the problem.

This is defined as (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#Origin):
Origin
Optional field indicating the origin of the repository, a single line
of free form text.

Proposal:
www.linuxcnc.org

Maintainer: ( defined in debian/control.top.in )
Currently: Seb Kuzminsky <seb@....>

This can be a mailing list, so potentially
[email protected]... But that might not
work properly as emails from non-subscribers are rejected.
Seb runs the buildfarm, so is probably legitimately considered the maintainer.
If we keep this field the same then I should add "NMU" to the
changelog to indicate "Non Maintainer Upload" or, potentially, we can
add an Uploaders: field (
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-uploaders
)

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atp
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