I believe it's just a flag to notify that the author string has changed.
You might need to send a confirmation email that yes you did mean to
change, it is just a double check for both ends. I changed my email for a
package once for some reason and made the confirmation.
Cheers, Mike
On 9 Mar 2014
Using R 3.0.3 and Rtools 31, I now see a Note (reproduced on my R-forge checks)
of the form
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'firstname A B lastname '
where A and B are middle initials.
I can change to a 'firstname lastname' form or 'INITS lastname' form and that
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