Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 18:46:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> dpkg has supported comments (ignoring lines starting with #) in
> debian/control since 1.10.11. We should at least consider documenting
> them. (Encountered while processing lintian's bug backlog.)
>
Hi,
should this be restricted to debian/control, or apply to all control
files? (deb-control(5) seems to imply the latter, but maybe it's safer
to only allow this in policy 5.2 rather than 5.1.)
I'll try to provide a patch for this.
Cheers,
Julien
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