Bug#807351: python-debian: diff for NMU version 0.1.27+nmu1

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi Neil,

thanks for looking at python-debian for us

In discussing comment handling with the apt and python-apt maintainers, I had 
reached the conclusion that this test probably needed to be deleted entirely. 
It is testing to see if some undefined behaviour has a particular outcome as a 
canary to help guard against other bugs in comment-handling creeping back in. 
But looking at your suggested patch, given that python-apt now throws an error 
on this undefined behaviour, I think we've got a better result than checking 
for one particular mis-parse. This feels a lot safer for consumers of the API, 
so maybe it is best to test for the failure as you have done here. Thanks.

BTW There's a lot of detritus in the diff from python-
debian-0.1.27/lib/python_debian.egg-info -- I suspect that this comes from 
building it twice in a row in the same tree rather than it being build by 
sbuild or pbuilder. (This is clearly a bug in the build system; perhaps we 
should be caring more for these files anyway?)

cheers
Stuart

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