Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.23 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz
I believe that, as a general rule, all human-readable, human-editable, machine-parseable file formats should support a comment syntax. Debian changelogs meet these criteria. My use case is simply this, at the end of the file: # vim:set ai et sw=2 ts=2 tw=78: Fans of other editors can do similarly (and probably already do, outside the spec just like me). -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.27.90.20170124-2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.23 ii make 4.1-9.1 ii patch 2.7.5-1+b2 pn perl:any <none> ii tar 1.29b-1.1 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 12.3 ii fakeroot 1.21-3.1 ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:6.3.0-1 ii gcc-6 [c-compiler] 6.3.0-6 ii gnupg 2.1.18-6 ii gpgv 2.1.18-6 ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-3 Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring 2017.01.20 -- no debconf information
