On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Russ Allbery<r...@debian.org> wrote: > Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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? > > Policy 5.2. They're permitted only in debian/control, not in other > control files. Is there a particular reason why comments can't be used in other control files? My software (libdebctrl) currently just scans any RFC822-alike file and considers them the same, which means if I add functionality to handle comments, it will apply to any debian control files, not just debian/control.
There is no easy way for me to issue a warning if comments are used in files other than debian/control, because the Parser part is a "dumb" parser that just extracts the structure from files with the RFC822 structure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
