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

[Jonathan Yu]

Hi there:

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Neil Williams<neil at 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
>
>
>
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