diff --git a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
index f228590326..eb215162ef 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
+++ b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 Package: openra
 Version: {VERSION}
 Architecture: all
-Maintainer: Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz>
-Uploaders: Maikel van den Hout <ma1kelvdh@gmail.com>, Paul Chote <sleipnir@sleipnirstuff.com>
+Maintainer: Paul Chote <sleipnir@sleipnirstuff.com>
 Installed-Size: {SIZE}	
 Depends: libopenal1, mono-runtime (>= 2.6.7), libmono-winforms2.0-cil, libfreetype6, libsdl1.2debian, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dri, libmono-i18n2.0-cil, ttf-freefont
 Section: games
diff --git a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/copyright b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/copyright
index f4d8ac5825..bba4205a60 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/copyright
+++ b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/copyright
@@ -1,43 +1,6 @@
-This work was packaged for Debian by:
+Copyright 2007-2011 The OpenRA Developers (see /usr/share/openra/AUTHORS)
 
-    Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz> on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:23:29 +1200
-
-It was downloaded from:
-
-    http://open-ra.org
-
-Upstream Author(s):
-
-    Chris Forbes <chrisf@ijw.co.nz>
-    Robert Pepperell <ytinasni@gmail.com>
-    Paul Chote <sleipnir@sleipnirstuff.com>
-    Alli Witherford <alzeih@gmail.com>
-    Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz>  
-
-Copyright:
-
-    Copyright (C) 2007-2011 The OpenRA Developers
-
-License:
-
-    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-    (at your option) any later version.
-
-    This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-    GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
-Public License version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
-
-The Debian packaging is:
-
-    Copyright (C) 2010 Matthew Bowra-Dean <matthew@ijw.co.nz>, Maikel van den Hout <ma1kelvdh@gmail.com>
-
-and is licensed under the GPL version 3, see above.
+OpenRA is free software. It is made available to you under the terms of
+the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
+version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3