Hi there: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Neil Williams<n...@codehelp.co.uk> wrote: > Package: libparse-debcontrol-perl > Version: 2.005-2 > Severity: normal > > debian/control does now allow comments (lines starting with # with no > preceding whitespace) but when libparse-debcontrol-perl comes across > such a debian/control file, parse_file returns an empty variable. Is there a reference in policy for this?
I've been monitoring recent changes and I haven't come across anything that would suggest that such comments are permitted. However, I might have missed the relevant section of Policy. What is the section number of the Policy that discusses this? > > Either parse_file should ignore the comments and preserve the rest of > the content or preserve both comments and content. Ideally it should just ignore comments, since it's just a parser and won't write the file anyway. The comments are only to be consumed by those reading the control file directly. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages libparse-debcontrol-perl depends on: > ii libcompress-zlib-perl 2.015-1 Perl module for creation and > manip > ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-4 Perl modules for IO from scalars > a > ii libwww-perl 5.828-1 WWW client/server library for > Perl > ii perl [libcompress-zlib-perl] 5.10.0-23 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction > > Versions of packages libparse-debcontrol-perl recommends: > ii libpod-coverage-perl 0.20-1 checker for comprehensiveness of > p > pn libtest-pod-perl <none> (no description available) > ii libtie-ixhash-perl 1.21-2 ordered associative arrays for > Per > > libparse-debcontrol-perl suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-perl-maintainers mailing list > pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-perl-maintainers > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
