Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.34
> Severity: minor
> Hi,
> running lintian on the xorg-server package from experimental gives me
> the following errors:
> E: xorg-server source: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields #package:
> 88, 108
[...]
> These come from a commented out part of debian/control, which I think
> should be ignored.
I see no indication in Debian Policy that comments are permitted in
control files. I'm happy to change Policy and then the lintian check if
they truly are, but I'd need confirmation from everything significant that
parses control files (which is more than just dpkg-buildpackage).
My guess is that software is currently recognizing those as valid but
unknown control fields.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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