Comment 2 for bug 701487

The problem is that python-debian (debian.deb822.Deb822.iter_paragraphs()) doesn't support comments in debian/control. It crashed if I want to print the paragraphs in Control.__init__ (ubuntutools/control.py):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ubuntu-dev-tools/update-maintainer", line 43, in <module>
    main()
  File "ubuntu-dev-tools/update-maintainer", line 40, in main
    sys.exit(update_maintainer(options.debian_directory, not options.quiet))
  File "ubuntu-dev-tools/ubuntutools/update_maintainer.py", line 67, in update_maintainer
    control = Control(control_file)
  File "ubuntu-dev-tools/ubuntutools/control.py", line 47, in __init__
    print paragraph
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/debian/deb822.py", line 348, in __str__
    return self.dump()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/debian/deb822.py", line 387, in dump
    value = self.get_as_string(key)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/debian/deb822.py", line 362, in get_as_string
    return unicode(self[key])
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/debian/deb822.py", line 173, in __getitem__
    value = self.__parsed[key]
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/debian/deb822.py", line 57, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: '# This file is autogenerated. DO NOT EDIT!\n'