Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes:

> meh. forgot to actually send this to the bug.

Thank you!

It occurred to me to check behavior with multiline fields as well.  Here's
a slightly modified version documenting that.  Does this still look good
to you?  (And also requesting seconds from others.)

--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2450,6 +2450,14 @@ Package: libc6
          See <ref id="substvars"> for details.
        </p>
 
+       <p>
+         In addition to the control file syntax described <qref
+         id="controlsyntax">above</qref>, this file may also contain
+         comment lines starting with <tt>#</tt>.  All such lines are
+         ignored, even in the middle of continuation lines for a
+         multiline field, and do not end a multiline field.
+       </p>
+
       </sect>
 
       <sect id="binarycontrolfiles">

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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