Bug#275124: lintian gets confused by comments in shlibs control files

[Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.2
Severity: normal

lintian seems to get confused about comments in shlib control files.
Section 8.6.3 of the policy states:

     Each `shlibs' file has the same format.  Lines beginning with `#' are
     considered to be comments and are ignored.  Each line is of the form:
          <library-name> <soname-version-number> <dependencies ...>

I have a multiline comment in one of my .shlibs files because the
dependencies look like they might be wrong but are really correct.
When I run lintian, I get the following errors and warnings:

E: libxercesicu26: duplicate-entry-in-shlibs-control-file #
E: libxercesicu26: duplicate-entry-in-shlibs-control-file #
E: libxercesicu26: duplicate-entry-in-shlibs-control-file #
E: libxercesicu26: duplicate-entry-in-shlibs-control-file #
E: libxercesicu26: duplicate-entry-in-shlibs-control-file #
W: libxercesicu26: unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file #

Oops. :-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.15-4     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                      1.34-1     produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                          4.10-3     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                       0.14.1-5   GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  man-db                        2.4.2-19   The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]     5.8.4-2.3  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
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