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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

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Oct 1, 2023, 5:40:05 AM10/1/23
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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 &lt;https://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.
-- >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.

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наб


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Holger Wansing

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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 &lt;https://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.
> -- >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 &lt; &gt; entites does not work here.
Should be replaced by < >.

Patch (tested) attached.
copyright-format-1.0.diff
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