tag 522527 patch
thanks
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
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>
> The attached patch arranges for '--color html' output to be properly
> escaped. Without it, if you look at the output in a web browser, things
> like the <pkg> in no-copyright-file's /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright can
> disappear.
Attached mbox contains a patch fixing this bug the way I think it should be
fixed:
Properly escaping some characters from the tag line (<&>, not just <& as the
originally proposed patch), and by calling description('html',...) which
ensures <i>, <em>, and <tt> are preserved.
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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