Package: devscripts
Severity: normal

Hello,

Here is a small bug with dch which can be tricky to find the actual
reason.

With this changelog:

--------
scilab (5.3.3-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * 

 -- Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org>  Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:49:59
+0200
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and this control file:
------
Source: scilab
Maintainer: Debian <deb...@debian.org>
Build-Depends: autoconf

Package: scilab-cli
Architecture: all
Description: my short desc
 my desc

#Package: scilab-xcos
#Description: Scientific software package for numerical computations
(binary files)

-------

dch will fail with the weird error message 
$ dch 
Parse error: indented entry without previous line at line 11 of data ("
").

It should at least specify that the problem is coming from
debian/control and not debian/changelog.
Moreover, this debian/control could be considered as valid... 

Thanks
Sylvestre





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