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The Deb package is missing the Maintainer field #223

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Summary

If you install the .deb package, you will get a warning about the missing Maintainer field. Also, other package management operations result in a similar warning.

Steps to reproduce

$ sudo dpkg -i expo-orbit_2.0.0_amd64.deb 
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 14 package 'expo-orbit':
 missing 'Maintainer' field
Selecting previously unselected package expo-orbit.
(Reading database ... 503534 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack expo-orbit_2.0.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking expo-orbit (2.0.0) ...
Setting up expo-orbit (2.0.0) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.6+22.04.20220217-0ubuntu5) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mate-menus (1.26.1-1build3) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
$

and:

$ dpkg -l anything
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8347 package 'expo-orbit':
 missing 'Maintainer' field
dpkg-query: no packages found matching anything

Environment



  expo-env-info 1.2.1 environment info:
    System:
      OS: Linux 6.8 Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS 24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat)
      Shell: 5.2.21 - /bin/bash
    Binaries:
      Node: 20.13.1 - ~/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.22.22 - ~/.npm-global/bin/yarn
      npm: 10.9.1 - ~/.npm-global/bin/npm
    SDKs:
      Android SDK:
        API Levels: 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
        Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.3, 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 31.0.0, 33.0.0, 33.0.1, 33.0.3, 34.0.0
        System Images: android-28 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-31 | Google APIs Intel x86_64 Atom, android-34 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a, android-34 | Google APIs Intel x86_64 Atom
    npmGlobalPackages:
      eas-cli: 13.3.0


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