Bug#181872: Patch

[Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au>]

Denis Barbier said:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:18:27PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> [...]
> > To clarify what I outlined in #186740, if you were to start with this
> > sort of string:
> > 
> >   &foo blah &amp; <url>
> > 
> > you would end up with this in the HTML:
> > 
> >   &amp;foo blah &amp; &lt;url&gt;
>                   ^^^^^
> No, it should be &amp;amp; since debian/control is supposed to be plain text.
> 
> Denis

Ah yes.  I misunderstood: my bad.

I had thought there were package descriptions that contained 'raw' SGML
entities, and that these needed fixing.  I guess this is not the case,
and if there are any package descriptions that do have entities (with
the intent that they be rendered as '&', '<' etc) then it is them that
is broken ...

A single pass through HTML::Entities::encode_entities() should do it
then, rather than decode + encode.

Andrew.

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