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Re: apt_preferences



On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:01:44PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   It doesn't have comment support?  I have "# ...." lines in my
> preferences file and nothing has ever complained...if these aren't
> supported, maybe something should look for them and complain if they
> exist.

If those lines contain normal field: value lines after the '#', you're
probably ending up with fields named '#fieldname'.  I don't think that it's
legal for RFC822 data to have non-continuation lines without a colon in
them, so lines like that should probably be flagged as an error.

-- 
 - mdz



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