Comment 24 for bug 219276

I've sponsored this with two modifications (I didn't see the need for yet another round-trip):

 * There's no need to *remove* the Uploaders field in Ubuntu; while it's true that we don't use it, removing it is an unnecessary delta against Debian and we try to minimise those.
 * I adjusted the Maintainer field to match recent changes to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField.
 * I inserted a recent changelog entry from Karmic, which was just for a no-change rebuild. (Of course the Ubuntu-specific changelog entries will go away anyway once we sync completely with Debian.)

Normally I wouldn't sponsor an Ubuntu change that added a patch system - we normally go along with existing packaging rather than trying to impose patch systems everywhere. Julien, you might like to consider that in future. However, in this case one of the Debian maintainers has already signed off on it so I waived that check.

Thanks to both of you for your work!