<URLs> in Description field don't show up on package landing pages

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According to the Writing R Extensions manual, URLs in a package Description field should be enclosed in angle brackets. See https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file

Note that this is enforced on CRAN via R CMD check's option --as-cran. See for example https://cran.r-project.org/package=crul or https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rtwobitlib.

Unfortunately, when used in a Bioconductor package, these URLs enclosed in angle brackets don't get displayed on the package landing page. See for example https://bioconductor.org/packages/igblastr where the 2 URLs present in the Description field are missing.

Note that the angle-bracketed URLs do show up in the HTML source of the page but the angle brackets are not escaped, hence why they're not rendered and the text inside them is not rendered either. FWIW the standard way to address this is to replace them with HTML entities < and >. For example in Python this is taken care of by passing the text to display thru html.escape():

>>> import html
>>> html.escape('<https://google.com/>')
'&lt;https://google.com/&gt;'

Thanks,
H.

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For example, the URLs included in the Description are displayed (and clickable!) on the r-universe package landing page: https://bioc-release.r-universe.dev/igblastr

Would be nice if our package landing pages could do the same: https://bioconductor.org/packages/igblastr

List of Bioconductor software packages currently affected by this:

• AlphaMissenseR (2 URLs missing)
• biomaRt (1 URL missing)
• crisprVerse (1 URL missing)
• ginmappeR (4 URLs missing)
• idpr (1 URL missing)
• igblastr (4 URLs missing)
• ipdDb (2 URLs missing)
• KEGGREST (1 URL missing)
• pathwayPCA (3 URLs missing)
• SNPediaR (1 URL missing)
• specL (1 URL missing)