Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> 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.)
> 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 suspect that we should restrict it to debian/control, since I believe
dpkg-* will strip out the comments and they may otherwise give other tools
heartburn. Might be good to ask the dpkg developers for a sure response.
> I'll try to provide a patch for this.
That would be great!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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