Julien Cristau <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 18:46:54 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> dpkg has supported comments (ignoring lines starting with #) in >> debian/control since 1.10.11. We should at least consider documenting >> them. (Encountered while processing lintian's bug backlog.) > should this be restricted to debian/control, or apply to all control > files? (deb-control(5) seems to imply the latter, but maybe it's safer > to only allow this in policy 5.2 rather than 5.1.) I suspect that we should restrict it to debian/control, since I believe dpkg-* will strip out the comments and they may otherwise give other tools heartburn. Might be good to ask the dpkg developers for a sure response. > I'll try to provide a patch for this. That would be great! -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
