Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control

2009-02-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > 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. >

Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control

2009-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:39:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> 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

Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control

2009-02-02 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:39:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Julien Cristau 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

Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control

2009-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau 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.) > shou

Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control

2009-02-02 Thread Julien Cristau
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.) > Hi, should this be restricted to

Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: wishlist 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.) -- System Information: Debian Release: len

Bug#446712: debian-policy: document comments in debian/control

2007-10-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: wishlist 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.) -- System Information: Debian Release: len