diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7f5e71d1..258d1524 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # Features which requires OBS 2.3
 #
   - support dryrun of branching to preview the expected result. "osc sm" is doing this now by default.
+  - maintenance requests accept package lists as source and target incidents to be merged in
 
 0.133
   - add --meta option also to "list", "cat" and "less" commands
diff --git a/osc/commandline.py b/osc/commandline.py
index 40658211..6d9190aa 100644
--- a/osc/commandline.py
+++ b/osc/commandline.py
@@ -2617,6 +2617,10 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
                         help='specify message TEXT')
     @cmdln.option('--no-cleanup', action='store_true',
                   help='do not remove source project on accept')
+    @cmdln.option('--incident', metavar='INCIDENT',
+                        help='specify incident number to merge in')
+    @cmdln.option('--incident-project', metavar='INCIDENT_PROJECT',
+                        help='specify incident project to merge in')
     def do_maintenancerequest(self, subcmd, opts, *args):
         """${cmd_name}: Create a request for starting a maintenance incident.
 
@@ -2628,7 +2632,7 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
         the "patchinfo" command how add the required maintenance update information.
 
         usage:
-            osc maintenancerequest [ SOURCEPROJECT [ TARGETPROJECT ] ]
+            osc maintenancerequest [ SOURCEPROJECT [ SOURCEPACKAGES ] ]
         ${cmd_option_list}
         """
 
@@ -2638,22 +2642,21 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
         if opts.attribute:
             maintenance_attribute = opts.attribute
 
-        source_project = target_project = opt_sourceupdate = None
+        source_project = source_packages = target_project = opt_sourceupdate = None
         if not opts.no_cleanup:
            opt_sourceupdate = 'cleanup'
 
-        if len(args) > 2:
-            raise oscerr.WrongArgs('Too many arguments.')
-
         if len(args) == 0 and is_project_dir(os.curdir):
             source_project = store_read_project(os.curdir)
         elif len(args) == 0:
             raise oscerr.WrongArgs('Too few arguments.')
         if len(args) > 0:
             source_project = args[0]
-
         if len(args) > 1:
-            target_project = args[1]
+            source_packages = args[1:]
+
+        if opts.incident_project:
+            target_project = opts.incident_project
         else:
             xpath = 'attribute/@name = \'%s\'' % maintenance_attribute
             res = search(apiurl, project_id=xpath)
@@ -2662,12 +2665,14 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
             if project is None:
                 sys.exit('Unable to find defined OBS:MaintenanceProject project on server.')
             target_project = project.get('name')
+            if opts.incident:
+                target_project += ":" + opts.incident
             print 'Using target project \'%s\'' % target_project
 
         if not opts.message:
             opts.message = edit_message()
 
-        r = create_maintenance_request(apiurl, source_project, target_project, opt_sourceupdate, opts.message)
+        r = create_maintenance_request(apiurl, source_project, source_packages, target_project, opt_sourceupdate, opts.message)
         print r.reqid
 
 
diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index 2f30ca2c..aceaeccb 100644
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ class Action:
         'add_role': ('tgt_project', 'tgt_package', 'person_name', 'person_role', 'group_name', 'group_role'),
         'set_bugowner': ('tgt_project', 'tgt_package', 'person_name'), # obsoleted by add_role
         'maintenance_release': ('src_project', 'src_package', 'src_rev', 'tgt_project', 'tgt_package', 'person_name'),
-        'maintenance_incident': ('src_project', 'tgt_project', 'person_name', 'opt_sourceupdate'),
+        'maintenance_incident': ('src_project', 'src_package', 'src_rev', 'tgt_project', 'person_name', 'opt_sourceupdate'),
         'delete': ('tgt_project', 'tgt_package'),
         'change_devel': ('src_project', 'src_package', 'tgt_project', 'tgt_package')}
     # attribute prefix to element name map (only needed for abbreviated attributes)
@@ -3418,10 +3418,14 @@ def create_release_request(apiurl, src_project, message=''):
     return r
 
 # create a maintenance incident per request
-def create_maintenance_request(apiurl, src_project, tgt_project, opt_sourceupdate, message=''):
+def create_maintenance_request(apiurl, src_project, src_packages, tgt_project, opt_sourceupdate, message=''):
     import cgi
     r = Request()
-    r.add_action('maintenance_incident', src_project=src_project, tgt_project=tgt_project, opt_sourceupdate = opt_sourceupdate)
+    if src_packages:
+        for p in src_packages:
+             r.add_action('maintenance_incident', src_project=src_project, src_package=p, tgt_project=tgt_project, opt_sourceupdate = opt_sourceupdate)
+    else:
+        r.add_action('maintenance_incident', src_project=src_project, tgt_project=tgt_project, opt_sourceupdate = opt_sourceupdate)
     # XXX: clarify why we need the unicode(...) stuff
     r.description = cgi.escape(unicode(message, 'utf8'))
     r.create(apiurl)