R package declaring author in DESCRIPTION

My DESCRIPTION file looks like this (showing only relevant part).

Author: John Doe
Authors@R: person("John", "Doe", email = "john.doe@email.com",role = c("aut", "cre"))
Maintainer: John Doe <john.doe@email.com>

devtools::check(), R CMD check and R CMD build completes fine. But, CRAN submission returns this NOTE:

  * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R
Author:    'John Doe'
Authors@R: 'John Doe [aut, cre]'

Not sure what that's about. Anyway, checking documentation, it says:

Fields ‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ can be auto-generated from ‘Authors@R’, and may be omitted if the latter is provided.

So, I removed Author and maintainer. Now when I run R CMD check locally:

* checking for file ‘./DESCRIPTION’ ... ERROR
Required fields missing or empty:
  ‘Author’ ‘Maintainer’

What's the best way to do this?

UPDATE

I removed Authors@R and left Author and Maintainer as is. All local tests passed. But, CRAN complaints about this.

* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'John Doe <john.doe@email.com>'

But, I don't get this.

UPDATE

This issue has been documented here.