Bug#176599: apt: comments not allowed in prefernces file or man page doesnt mention policy

["Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz

as title

wait... apparently comments are allowed, but not blank lines... make
sure the man page says this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-15    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library

-- no debconf information