Bug#535958: libparse-debcontrol-perl: fails to parse control files with comments

[Russ Allbery]

Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu at 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.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>