Bug#374654: Please allow '#' comments in /etc/apt/apt.conf
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44.2
Severity: normal
The maintainers clearly do not want separate bug requests
piled all into one report; but perhaps a request to allow
hash (#) chars as comments in _all_ apt config files, such
as '/etc/apt/apt.conf' is seen as the same bug/request. I
dunno. Let's see what the response is.
And so I'm filing this request/bug as a separate bug, since
it is wholly reasonable to expect to have/allow #s as
comments in config files; and it's bothersome when they are
not allowed, for whatever (IMO) arcane reason. And it loox
like nothing has been done on this front since the last time
I visited this report, or since it was first filed -- both
being quite some time ago.
Allow # comment lines in all apt config files, please.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages apt recommends:
pn debian-archive-keyring <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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