I figure since the error message is incorrect (the comment is not a "rule" that needs to be skipped), the correct solution is to filter out comments before trying to parse. I haven't tested this (not sure how to), but this patch should cause it to skip comments. I just moved the check for comment characters from after the check for too-long-lines to before it.
** Attachment added: "udev_long_comments.diff" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4214344/udev_long_comments.diff -- libsane.rules: Line 540 too long, can not be parsed by udev https://launchpad.net/bugs/56317 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
