Hi! On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:39:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.)
The man page is wrong, and that specific part should be moved to something like dsc-control or similar. We have talked about this in the team at some point but will probably be doing during 1.15.x. > 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. All dpkg programs using the C parsing code do not handle # as a comment, and will happily take it as part of the field name if it contains a colon (as in «#Foo: bar»), otherwise it will barf about an invalid field. The dpkg perl programs that use the Dpkg::Control or Dpkg::Cdata modules do supprort comments. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
