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5.6.2 ‘Maintainer’
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The package maintainer’s name and email address.  The name must come
first, then the email address inside angle brackets ‘<>’ (in RFC822
format).

If the maintainer’s name contains a full stop then the whole field will
not work directly as an email address due to a misfeature in the syntax
specified in RFC822; a program using this field as an address must check
for this and correct the problem if necessary (for example by putting
the name in round brackets and moving it to the end, and bringing the
email address forward).

See Note: The maintainer of a package. for additional requirements
and information about package maintainers.