Bug#694142: [wrap-and-sort] silently removes all comments from debian/control

Dmitry Smirnov onlyjob at member.fsf.org
Sat Nov 24 10:03:45 UTC 2012


Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.5
Severity: important

"wrap-and-sort" silently removes all comments from debian/control.

This is unacceptable as debian/control may contain important comments and/or 
commented binary package(s).

Even worse "wrap-and-sort" drops legitimate packages.
Consider the following fragment from debian/control:

	Breaks:
	# some-library (>= 1.8) is needed to avoid random crashes in application
	  some-library (<< 1.8)

"wrap-and-sort" drops the entire contents of Breaks section above.

Regards,
Dmitry.



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