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

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:17:09 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:

> 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.

Passing "{stripComments => 1}" to parse_file should, according to the
POD and t/31stripcomments.t, strip the comments.

(But the empty variable without stripComments still needs a fix IMO.
And stripComments also seems to remove comments _with_ preceding
white space ...)

Cheers,
gregor
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