Comments in spec files (was Re: Plan for tomorrows (20070517) FESCO meeting)

[Denis Leroy]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 May 2007 14:54:11 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
>>
>>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>>> All we're asking (well, maybe all _I_ am asking) is that when people
>>>> feel like they need to break one of the guidelines, they present their
>>>> case and document that case in the spec file.
>>> On that topic, how does one write comments in a spec file ?
>>
>> # Like this
>> ## or this in many script languages.
>>
>>> I remember a few years ago I was asked to remove all '# comments' 
>>> lines from scriptlets apparently because they "could cause problems"...
>>
>> No. You were only asked to not add such comment lines _after_ scriptlet
>> sections in the spec file, because the comments would be included in the
>> scriptlet bodies, even if a scriptlet section is passed to 
>> /sbin/ldconfig,
>> which doesn't understand the contents and breaks badly.

Not enough coffee. You meant "after scriptlet sections ON THE SAME LINE" 
as in

%post -p /sbin/ldconfig # bad comment