Hi Stuart, Thank you for getting back to this issue:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Stuart Prescott wrote: > A while ago, you reported a bug against python-debian's handling of comments > in deb822. > In that bug, the following input was used to illustrate the problem: > > $> cat confuse.txt > > Goodone: value0 > > ; xxx might be unicode: Ярик > > Entry: value > [...] > > or may be comments shouldn't be detached from paragraphs according to > > rfc822? (in any case the divergence between unicode/plain handling is > > sub-optimal) > The only place where comments are defined in deb822 files that I can find is > in > policy §5.1 and they are only defined for debian/control files and comments > are > started by a # at the start of the line. if I get it right, I either saw (or found somewhere) a confirmation that deb822 is based on (not just inspired by) rfc822, and that is why I was expecting comments as defined in rfc822 be respected: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt 2.8. ; COMMENTS A semi-colon, set off some distance to the right of rule text, starts a comment that continues to the end of line. This is a simple way of including useful notes in parallel with the specifications. but if deb822 is not derived from rfc822, I guess my report was a moot ;) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org