<heading>The maintainer of a package</heading>
<p>
- Every package must have a Debian maintainer. The maintainer may
- be one person or a group of people reachable from a common email
+ Every package must have a maintainer. The maintainer may be one
+ person or a group of people reachable from a common email
address, such as a mailing list. The maintainer is responsible
for maintaining the Debian packaging files, evaluating and
responding appropriately to reported bugs, uploading new