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

[James McCoy]

Control: reassign -1 python-debian
Control: forcemerge 604093 -1
Control: affects -1 devscripts

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 09:03:45PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> "wrap-and-sort" silently removes all comments from debian/control.

wrap-and-sort gets the content from deb822.Deb822.iter_paragraphs.
Reassigning.

> 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.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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