Re: encoding of Mirrors.masterlist

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:

> mmm. But we already have escaped & in mirror_list.pl in lines 601, 621
> and 675:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/mirror/mirror_list.pl?view=markup

Yes, and I argue we shouldn't do that.

> $ ./mirror_list.pl --type sponsors | grep und
> produces:
> <a href="http://www.1und1.de/";>1&amp;1 Internet AG</a>
> 
> So how 1&amp;1 becomes again 1&1?

There are two mirrors provided by 1&1:

| [git|master] weasel@orinoco:~/projects/debian/mirror/masterlist$ ./mirror_list.pl --type sponsors | grep -i internet | grep -i '1[au]nd1'
| <a href="http://www.1und1.de/";>1&amp;1 Internet AG</a>
| <a href="http://1and1.com";>1&1 Internet</a>

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