It is hard to spot the space in front of the string, and much harder to understand that it is significant. That's why I still think that applying my patch as-is is a better choice. In committed change https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy/-/commit/69933a335bce539ec8e75f3b5625dc69509d9886 the test that explains blank lines goes as replacement for those blank like, but the text that explains two space pattern is an inline comment. In my patch user needs to replace every placeholder with the content that is described within.
- Bug#976301: Fix invalid `changelog` format exam... Anatoli Babenia
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- Bug#976301: Fix invalid `changelog` fo... Guillem Jover
- Bug#976301: Fix invalid `changelog... Anatoli Babenia
- Bug#976301: Fix invalid `changelog... Sean Whitton
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