Read it closely - it's not warning about the content of the Maintainer
field, but rather that the Original-Maintainer field is missing.
Normally a package modified by Ubuntu would need to preserve Debian's
Maintainer field in Original-Maintainer. When we don't do this, it
causes huge political ructions because we get accused of stealing
credit. (We deliberately chose to do this in dpkg, not in lintian; there
was a related case where we actually wanted to fail the build, which
lintian can't do.)
There are certainly some cases where we prepared the package from
scratch, but in many of those cases we don't use "ubuntu" as a substring
of the version (remember that the only purpose of "ubuntu" is to inhibit
syncs from Debian; it's rather odd to use it if Debian doesn't have the
package at all). In the rare cases that remain, those where the version
has an "ubuntu" substring but the package did not originate in Debian,
I'm content for there to be a false positive on this warning, and I
think that's better than neutering it.
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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[jaunty] dpkg-source warns of ubuntu changes even for ubuntu maintainer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386293
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