Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> > All dpkg programs using the C parsing code do not handle # as a comment,
> > and will happily take it as part of the field name if it contains a
> > colon (as in «#Foo: bar»), otherwise it will barf about an invalid
> > field.
> >
> > The dpkg perl programs that use the Dpkg::Control or Dpkg::Cdata modules
> > do supprort comments.
>
> Are there any dpkg programs using C parsing that read debian/control, or
No, not that I know.
> is that only read by Perl programs and therefore can definitely have
> comments?
Everything related to the source package is in dpkg-dev and is in
perl or shell.
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