Bug#493147: pbuilder: get_control_re function can't grok funny comments in debian/control

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008, Eric Pozharski wrote:
> Excuse me a bit of speculation.  If my understanding of Debian Policy is
> correct than B<x11-utils> package in state of B<7.3+2> (in sid) violates
> it.  However (at moment of writing this) no one complains.  May be it's
> just some modern trend.  As if it's the only trend.

 I think policy might need an update; it would be nice if you could pick
 up this task.  The Xorg maintainers brought #440830 to my attention,
 where Russ mentions dak and policy; dak must obviously support this or
 x11-utils wouldn't be in the archive, but policy might still not be
 up-to-date in this respect.

 Support for comments in control is documented in deb-control(5) though.

 In all cases, pbuilder isn't a policy compliance checker so it can be
 quite tolerant to such stuff IMO, so I personally welcome the patch to
 support the comments.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier