Bug#713862: /usr/bin/debchange: dch fails on debian/control files that contain comments

[Paul Gevers]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.13.2~bpo70+1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/debchange

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I have a debian/control file that contains a comment line. According to policy 5.1 [1]
this is allowed. However, if I use dch on this package, dch fails.

paul at wollumbin ~/lazarus $ dch -i
Parse error: invalid key/value stansa at line 342 of data ("#################### backward compatibility meta packages####################").

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html

Paul

- -- Package-specific info:

- --- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

- --- ~/.devscripts ---
BTS_SMTP_HOST=XXX
DEBSIGN_KEYID=05BD750A

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev  1.16.10
ii  libc6     2.13-38
ii  perl      5.14.2-21
ii  python3   3.2.3-6

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                        3.1.13-2
ii  curl                      7.26.0-1+wheezy2
ii  dctrl-tools               2.22.2
ii  debian-keyring            2013.04.21
ii  dput-ng [dput]            1.4
ii  equivs                    2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.4-2
ii  gnupg                     1.4.12-7
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      0.58-1
ii  libdistro-info-perl       0.10
ii  libencode-locale-perl     1.03-1
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
ii  libsoap-lite-perl         0.714-1
ii  liburi-perl               1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.04-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.13
ii  man-db                    2.6.2-1
ii  patch                     2.6.1-3
ii  patchutils                0.3.2-1.1
ii  python3-debian            0.1.21+nmu2~bpo70+1
ii  python3-magic             1:5.14-2~bpo70+1
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.7
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-8
ii  wdiff                     1.1.2-1
ii  wget                      1.13.4-3
ii  xz-utils                  5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  build-essential              11.5
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.0-8
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1500-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.04-3
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.01-3
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
ii  mutt                         1.5.21-6.2
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.0p1-4
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-8

- -- no debconf information

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