release: a Maintainer address the .deb accepts; no Debian changelog for an upstream package

lintian rejected the Maintainer field without an e-mail address, and the missing
changelog of a package built upstream rather than by a distribution.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -159,7 +159,9 @@ jobs:
           dpkg-deb --info "$deb"
           rpm -qpi "$rpm"
           echo "rpm requires:"; rpm -qpR "$rpm"
-          lintian --info --fail-on error "$deb"
+          # The release notes live on GitHub, so the package has no Debian changelog (a native
+          # package built upstream, not by a distribution).
+          lintian --info --fail-on error --suppress-tags no-changelog "$deb"
           ldd target/release/fieldcraft
           for appimage in dist/release/*.AppImage; do
             chmod +x "$appimage"

apps/fieldcraft/Cargo.toml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ embed-resource = "3.0.12"
 # NEEDED entries and the tools cannot find them: they are listed here.
 [package.metadata.deb]
 name = "fieldcraft"
-maintainer = "FieldCraft contributors"
+maintainer = "FieldCraft contributors <[email protected]>"
 copyright = "FieldCraft contributors"
 section = "science"
 priority = "optional"

packaging/linux/package.sh

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ if has deb; then
   case "$ARCH" in x86_64) DEB_ARCH=amd64 ;; *) DEB_ARCH="$ARCH" ;; esac
   OUT="$DIST/fieldcraft_${VERSION}_$DEB_ARCH.deb"
   (cd "$ROOT" && cargo deb --locked -p fieldcraft --no-build --deb-version "$PKG_VERSION" \
-    --maintainer "${FIELDCRAFT_MAINTAINER:-FieldCraft contributors}" -o "$OUT")
+    --maintainer "${FIELDCRAFT_MAINTAINER:-FieldCraft contributors <[email protected]>}" -o "$OUT")
   echo "wrote $OUT"
 fi
 if has rpm; then