Rewrite the lineage readme, and make CI read prose

[sqlparser]

Supersedes #53, which GitHub closed automatically when its base branch was deleted on merging #52. Same commit, rebased onto master.

From the first-time evaluation of a fresh clone (2026-08-24). The root README path works end to end; what fails an evaluator is the folder readmes.

The lineage readme told visitors the demo was broken

src/main/java/gudusoft/gsqlparser/demos/dlineage/readme.md — the folder most people open first — said, and I verified each of these against the current tree:

the readme said	reality
DataFlowAnalyzer is excluded from the root build	pom.xml excludes nothing at all since 2026-07-28; the uber jar carries the class
…because the trial parser lacks the metadata layer	it builds and runs fine on trial 4.2.6
"That build currently fails", use mvn -f pom_dlineage.xml package	that POM was deleted 2026-07-28
java -jar gudusoft.dlineage.jar /t oracle /f ../sample/demo.sql	run verbatim: Error: Unable to access jarfile. Wrong jar name, wrong sample path

13 dead references in one file, and every build stayed green.

Rewritten against measured behaviour. The option list is now reproduced verbatim from the tool’s own output instead of hand-maintained — the old copy had already drifted, missing /csv-simple, /showER and the gaussdb dialect. Three things it never mentioned are now documented, each verified:

• /fromdb is dead. SqlflowIngester.export(...) is commented out and the class deleted, so it emits an empty <dlineage/> and writes no metadata.json — while the readme spent two sections teaching it, with four vendor examples.
• mvn exec:java cannot run this demo on JDK 21 — JAXB against exec:java’s child classloader throws a loader constraint violation before any output. The uber jar is the supported route, which is exactly why CI smokes the jar.
• The trial 10,000-byte cap rejects 16 of the 89 .sql files under samples/, all of them schema dumps under samples/dlineageBasic/, returning a <dlineage> whose only content is an <error> — easy to read as "no lineage found".

demos/readme.md gets the same treatment: its Maven section told the reader to comment out a private parent POM, repoint system-scope dependencies at external_lib/, and add a vendored gudusoft.gsqlparser-3.0.1.5.jar. All removed in the 2026-07/08 cleanups.

The general fix

.github/scripts/check-stale-docs.sh fails if any tracked .md outside README.md and docs/maintenance-notes.md names pom_dlineage.xml, gudusoft.dlineage.jar, or the old demos package root. build.yml runs it on every push and PR.

It runs --self-test first, and that is not ceremony — a fixed-string scan that matches nothing is indistinguishable from a clean repository, the same fail-open shape as the pre-commit hook this repo already tests in CI.

$ .github/scripts/check-stale-docs.sh --self-test
  ok    a clean document passes
  ok    "pom_dlineage.xml" is caught
  ok    "gudusoft.dlineage.jar" is caught
  ok    "src/main/java/demos/" is caught
  ok    "src\main\java\demos\" is caught
self-test: all 5 cases pass

$ .github/scripts/check-stale-docs.sh
checking 61 markdown files for references to deleted things
ok: no documentation points at anything that has been removed

It was also confirmed to fail on an injected regression in a real readme before being wired up.

Not in this PR

The evaluation raised three product questions this cannot answer: shipping T*SQLDataSource in the trial jar (or taking connector/ off the trial path), restoring or deleting /fromdb, and adding a sub-10 KB schema sample so "lineage on a real schema" is trial-evaluable.

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