> For instance, say I wanted to distribute my own copy of > ssh, with Kerberos support, but didn't want to bug the ssh maintainer > about this (yet). I want bug reports to come to me... Why wouldn't you set the maintainer field of this package to yourself? Then you could set Origin: Maintainer, the package would (I hope) be rejected by the Debian dupload (it doesn't have Origin: Debian), and bug reports would go to you... -itai