From a5c9212e274417eafc87262438ae12824bc2dc33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:05:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] debian/control files may contain comment lines

Document the debian/control comment syntax of lines starting with #,
including their behavior with multiline fields.  Based on wording by
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>.

Closes #446712.
---
 policy.sgml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 8bb8b3f..58ba938 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2450,6 +2450,14 @@ Package: libc6
 	  See <ref id="substvars"> for details.
 	</p>
 
+	<p>
+	  In addition to the control file syntax described <qref
+	  id="controlsyntax">above</qref>, this file may also contain
+	  comment lines starting with <tt>#</tt>.  All such lines are
+	  ignored, even in the middle of continuation lines for a
+	  multiline field, and do not end a multiline field.
+	</p>
+
       </sect>
 
       <sect id="binarycontrolfiles">
-- 
2.39.5