Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.34 Severity: minor Hi, running lintian on the xorg-server package from experimental gives me the following errors: E: xorg-server source: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields #package: 88, 108 E: xorg-server source: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields #architecture

Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.34 > Severity: minor > Hi, > running lintian on the xorg-server package from experimental gives me > the following errors: > E: xorg-server source: debian-control-with-duplicate-fields #package: > 88, 108 [...] > The

Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 09:24:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I see no indication in Debian Policy that comments are permitted in > control files. I'm happy to change Policy and then the lintian check if > they truly are, but I'd need confirmation from everything significant that > parses control

Bug#440830: lintian: should ignore comments in debian/control

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anything other than dpkg-dev need to parse debian/control files (in > source packages)? This is bug#191810 in dpkg-dev, FWIW, so it's > supported since 2003. debhelper, devtools, etc., and I don't know if dak does as well. But thinking about it,