diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c894f34e7c90c46a8840f3bbd2afe7e34e76002f..42d754ccd5705c6de99cd7e8b7a88396adfa96b0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Source: tar-doc
 Section: non-free/doc
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
+Maintainer: Janos Lenart <ocsi@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11)
 Standards-Version: 4.1.4
 
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 95c8a53b1403c10a759d74b741e3b3ebd91768f7..60a56793f40fa3c4ad3fca04a24e5be3f59e51cc 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ This tar info documentation was extracted from the latest pre-release tar
 source package made available at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar, and packaged
 for Debian by Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
 
+Currently maintained by Janos Lenart <ocsi@debian.org>
+
 The GNU tar documentation is
 
    Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001,