HTML markup showing up in the Debian installer

[thesurlydev]

I noticed there's HTML markup showing in the title for the Debian installer.

[pimterry]

Huh, that's very interesting. Thanks for letting me know! I'll look into it.

[thesurlydev]

Forgot to mention this is on Pop OS 22.04 if that factors in

[pimterry]

I did some more digging, I actually have no idea where this is coming from. I've extracted the contents of the latest package manually with dpkg-deb -R <pkg> . and examining the metadata shows:

Package: httptoolkit
Version: 1.12.6
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
Vendor: contact@httptoolkit.tech
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: contact@httptoolkit.tech
Installed-Size: 375997
Depends: libgtk-3-0, libnotify4, libnss3, libxss1, libxtst6, xdg-utils, libatspi2.0-0, libuuid1, libsecret-1-0
Recommends: libappindicator3-1
Section: default
Priority: optional
Homepage: https://httptoolkit.tech
Description: 
  HTTP(S) debugging, development & testing tool

So the <b>...</b> isn't actually present at all. I've also opened the package with gdebi, and it appears correctly there with no problems - this only appears with Eddy (which I've just installed specifically to reproduce this). Is it possible that Eddy is adding this somewhere for some reason? Do you see this with other packages? I don't know much about Eddy at all.

[thesurlydev]

I haven't seen the issue otherwise but I'm also told I'm not observant 😀

I took a quick look on eddy and PopOS repos to see if it's been reported but didn't find anything.

[pimterry]

Ok, I'll file an issue with Eddy and see if they know what's up here.

[pimterry]

This was indeed an Eddy bug, triggered by the & in the description here (which is valid, but seems to have broke some parsing). It's now been fixed in https://github.com/donadigo/eddy/pull/136.

Thanks for reporting this! Glad we could get that sorted out :smile: