Bug#155499: apt-ftparchive: please allow comments in FileLists

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor

apt-ftparchive barfs on comments "#" in a FileList file. Thus, it is
not possible to have scripts write "automatically generated, do not
touch!" comments into these files, possibly causing data loss if
somebody decides to manually edit these files.

Please consider allowing comments in FileList files.

Greetings
Marc


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux paola 2.4.18 #1 Mon Jul 22 10:15:44 UTC 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2- 0.5.4       Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-10    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb2                       2:2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-10 The GNU stdc++ library