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Bug#1053305: Fw: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage
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Holger Wansing
Oct 1, 2023, 5:40:05 AM10/1/23
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-CC: наб <nabijac...@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
This has to be fixed in the package.
Turning this into a bugreport against debian-policy.
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 01:42:47 +0200
From: наб <nabijac...@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
To: debia...@lists.debian.org
Subject: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage
File appears untagged, as does everything up to /doc. So posting here.
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/,
Example 3. Simple and Example 4. Complex say
-- >8 --
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this package; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-- >8 --
and I almost just copied this into d/copyright verbatim.
Oddly, all other <> pairs, even in those same <pre> hunks,
are correctly (un)escaped? So unclear to me how this happened.
Best,
наб
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Holger Wansing <hwan...@mailbox.org>
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Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-CC: наб <nabijac...@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
This has to be fixed in the package.
Turning this into a bugreport against debian-policy.
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 01:42:47 +0200
From: наб <nabijac...@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
To: debia...@lists.debian.org
Subject: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage
File appears untagged, as does everything up to /doc. So posting here.
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/,
Example 3. Simple and Example 4. Complex say
-- >8 --
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this package; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-- >8 --
and I almost just copied this into d/copyright verbatim.
Oddly, all other <> pairs, even in those same <pre> hunks,
are correctly (un)escaped? So unclear to me how this happened.
Best,
наб
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Holger Wansing <hwan...@mailbox.org>
PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
Holger Wansing
Oct 1, 2023, 5:50:04 AM10/1/23
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наб <nabijac...@nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with this package; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> -- >8 --
> and I almost just copied this into d/copyright verbatim.
>
> Oddly, all other <> pairs, even in those same <pre> hunks,
> are correctly (un)escaped? So unclear to me how this happened.
Using < > entites does not work here.
Should be replaced by < >.
Patch (tested) attached.
наб <nabijac...@nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:
> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with this package; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> -- >8 --
> and I almost just copied this into d/copyright verbatim.
>
> Oddly, all other <> pairs, even in those same <pre> hunks,
> are correctly (un)escaped? So unclear to me how this happened.
Should be replaced by < >.
Patch (tested) attached.
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