Fw: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage

Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
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Package: debian-policy
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X-Debbugs-CC: наб <[email protected]>


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 <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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.

Best,
наб
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