Bug#985853: debian-installer: Whitespace before a commented line in preseed file causes line to be parsed

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 + pending

Hello,

Holger Wansing, le sam. 10 avril 2021 12:32:57 +0200, a ecrit:
> Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote (Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:06:32 -0600):
> > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:49:06 -0400
> > lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> > 
> > > Well none of the examples ever have spaces before # for comments.
> > > The documentation page you linked to doesn't even mention comments at
> > > all. I would agree that perhaps it should.  I have certainly
> > > encountered file types before where comments had to have # at the
> > > start of the line.
> > 
> > May I suggest inserting the following as the last bullet point item at
> > the top of "B.3. Creating a preconfiguration file" the following:
> > 
> > A comment consist of a line which *starts* with a sharp character ("#")
> > and extends the length of that line.
> > 
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs03.en.html
> > 
> > The emphasis on the word "starts" should probably be italics, or, in
> > HTML, <em></em>.
> 
> Re-assigning to installation-guide

Commited, thanks!

Samuel