Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> Does anything other than dpkg-dev need to parse debian/control files (in
> source packages)? This is bug#191810 in dpkg-dev, FWIW, so it's
> supported since 2003.
debhelper, devtools, etc., and I don't know if dak does as well. But
thinking about it, I'm guessing dak doesn't, so if dpkg-dev already
supports it, maybe we can just add it to Policy and let everything else
cope from there. It's basically like wrapped lines: as long as something
is canonicalizing debian/control when generating the other control files,
the pieces of software we have to deal with are probably fairly limited.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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