This patch allows the use of hash comments inside patch files. It's a
little ugly, but it strips comments and collapses all whitespace down to
single space characters between package names. It handles comments
anywhere in a line, as well.
Was unsure if \ continuation of the long sed line or the inclusion of a
couple of lines of comments explaining what the sed expressions are
doing would be appreciated, so didn't include them in this patch.
T. Joseph Carter