fix: add author email and homepage for Linux deb packaging#19
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electron-builder's FpmTarget requires author.email and homepage fields in package.json when building .deb packages on Linux. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
authorfield inapps/desktop/package.jsonfrom a plain string to an object withnameandemailhomepagefield pointing to the GitHub repoWhy
electron-builder'sFpmTarget(used for.deb/.rpmbuilds) requires bothauthor.emailandhomepageto be present inpackage.json. Without them the Linux build fails with:Windows builds were unaffected because they use NSIS/Squirrel, not FpmTarget.
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pnpm dist:linuxon Ubuntu and confirm.deband.AppImagebuild successfully🤖 Generated with Claude Code