Processed: Re: Bug#1053305 Fw: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage

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Bug #1053305 [debian-policy] Fw: 
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples 
suffer escape damage
Added tag(s) patch.

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Bug#1053305: Fw: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage

[Holger Wansing]

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наб  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  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.


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diff --git a/copyright-format-1.0.xml b/copyright-format-1.0.xml
index 954a65b..0920a84 100644
--- a/copyright-format-1.0.xml
+++ b/copyright-format-1.0.xml
@@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ License: GPL-2+
  GNU General Public License for more details.
  .
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this package; if not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/;.
+ along with this package; if not, see .
 Comment:
  On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License
  version 2 can be found in the file '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ License: GPL-2+
  GNU General Public License for more details.
  .
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this package; if not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/;.
+ along with this package; if not, see .
 Comment:
  On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License
  version 2 can be found in the file '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.]]>

Bug#1053305: Fw: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ examples suffer escape damage

[Holger Wansing]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-CC: наб 


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 
To: debian-...@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  hunks,
are correctly (un)escaped? So unclear to me how this happened.

Best,
наб


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