From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Thu May  2 16:30:27 2013
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 10:30:27 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Comments in the DESCRIPTION file
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On May 2, 2013, at 10:17 AM, cgenolin wrote:

> So it IS curently accepted, but may NOT be in the futur. Thanks for your
> answer.
> 
> So I guess that using 
> --- 8< -------------
> %%%%%%%%%1: 
> %%%2: Section 1
> %%%3
> ...
> --- 8< -------------
> 
> is correct, isn't it?
> 

Yes, that is legal (assuming a colon after the 3).

FWIW this is legal as well:

A######:
B###: section 1

The two relevant requirements are:

"A paragraph must not contain more than one instance of a particular field name." and "Field names must not begin with the comment character, #."

see 5.1 Syntax of control files:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html

Cheers,
Simon


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[Rd] Comments in the DESCRIPTION file
Simon Urbanek