Re: Bug#821363: debian-policy: Allow line-end comments in all Debian packaging control files

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:52:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > What is the rationale for explicitly disallowing line-end comments
> > in any but that one file?
>
> This just predates other files in source packages using deb822 syntax.
> The reason is that the control file in a binary package does not
> support comments for example.

Okay, thanks.

Should the wording at least be changed so that it only prohibits
line-end comments in binary package control file?

I ask this because I'm pretty sure that people who hand-wave a
specification as “same syntax as ‘debian/control’ file” intend for it to
have all the allowed syntax of that file, including comments.

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Ben Finney