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 <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
To: debian-www@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 <pre> hunks,
are correctly (un)escaped? So unclear to me how this happened.

Best,
наб

наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:

Using < > entites does not work here.
Should be replaced by < >.

Patch (tested) attached.