On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > Uh, what if I want to put the following at the very top of my > debian/control file? > > # $Id$ > > I was given to understand that dpkg 1.10.15 or so would be just fine > with it, whereas dpkg 1.9.21 or so would vomit all over it.
Placing comments in the leading paragraph may cause problems with older versions. However, for buildds, the build-depends will already be installed by the time your package is unpacked, so in practice, I doubt this is of much concern.
