diff -r 747eec42e7ae distutils2/metadata.py
--- a/distutils2/metadata.py	Mon May 21 17:01:44 2012 -0400
+++ b/distutils2/metadata.py	Tue Oct 02 15:02:47 2012 +1000
@@ -539,6 +539,8 @@
             'home_page': self['Home-page'],
             'author': self['Author'],
             'author_email': self['Author-email'],
+            'maintainer': self['Maintainer'],
+            'maintainer_email': self['Maintainer-email'],
             'license': self['License'],
             'description': self['Description'],
             'keywords': self['Keywords'],