Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:52:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > What is the rationale for explicitly disallowing line-end comments > > in any but that one file? > > This just predates other files in source packages using deb822 syntax. > The reason is that the control file in a binary package does not > support comments for example.
Okay, thanks. Should the wording at least be changed so that it only prohibits line-end comments in binary package control file? I ask this because I'm pretty sure that people who hand-wave a specification as “same syntax as ‘debian/control’ file” intend for it to have all the allowed syntax of that file, including comments. -- \ “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold to the masses | `\ over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and | _o__) its speaker a raving lunatic.” —Dresden James | Ben Finney
