SetCommentStart and SetCommentEnd in Cfengine 1.6.2

[Norbert Gövert]

Dear Cfengine Maintainers,

we're using the Debian cfengine package for administration of our
Linux machines. After migration to Debian woody we got cfengine 1.6.2
and encoutered some problems with the SetCommentStart and
SetCommentEnd directives in the editfiles section. Assume the
following config:

,-----
| control:
| 
|   actionsequence  = ( editfiles )
|     
| editfiles:
| 
|   { /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
|     SetCommentStart "# "
|     CommentLinesStarting "ToComment"
|   }
`-----

and the contents of /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf being the single
line

,-----
| ToComment
`-----

After running the configuration nothing happens to file testcf:

,-----
| address@hidden cfengine -f ./cfengine.conf -v
| [...]
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
| Editing files
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| cfengine:lucy: Begin editing /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
| cfengine:lucy: End editing /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
| [...]
| address@hidden cat testcf
| ToComment
`-----

The problem occurs with any setting for SetCommentStart we tested.

Removing the SetCommentStart line from the configuration yields the
correct results:

,-----
| address@hidden cfengine -f ./cfengine.conf -v
| [...]
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
| Editing files
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| cfengine:lucy: Begin editing /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
| Commenting # ToComment
| cfengine:lucy: End editing /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
| [...]
| address@hidden cat testcf
| # ToComment
`-----

Another ridiculous effect occurs when using a configuration with
SetCommentEnd:

,-----
| editfiles:
| 
|   { /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
|     SetCommentEnd "#"
|     CommentLinesStarting "ToComment"
|   }
`-----

,-----
| address@hidden cfengine -f ./cfengine.conf -v
| [...]
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
| Editing files
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| cfengine:lucy: Begin editing /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
| Commenting # ToCommentToComment
| cfengine:lucy: End editing /home-local/goevert/tmp/testcf
| [...]
| address@hidden cat testcf
| # ToCommentToComment
`-----

With our old cfengine version (from Debian potato, v1.5.3) everything
worked as expected.

Can you help? Thanks in advance!

 Regards, Norbert.

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