From f80b9ec96f3c1eae4f5e37292ff12fa25c023087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:03:46 +0000
Subject: * Document configuration file comment syntax in apt.conf(5) Author:
 mdz Date: 2003-09-16 21:01:12 GMT * Document configuration file comment
 syntax in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #211262)

---
 doc/apt.conf.5.sgml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml b/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
index 73524f602..2f04c892c 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@
    parent groups.
    <para>
    Syntacticly the configuration language is modeled after what the ISC tools
-   such as bind and dhcp use. Each line is of the form
+   such as bind and dhcp use.  Lines starting with
+   <literal>//</literal> are treated as comments (ignored).  Each line is of the form
    <literallayout>APT::Get::Assume-Yes "true";</literallayout> The trailing 
    semicolon is required and the quotes are optional. A new scope can be
    opened with curly braces, like:
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