diff --git a/packages/deb/genpkgnames.pl b/packages/deb/genpkgnames.pl
index 3fab5a10e..f8ba681cc 100644
--- a/packages/deb/genpkgnames.pl
+++ b/packages/deb/genpkgnames.pl
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 use Parse::DebControl;
 
 $parser = new Parse::DebControl;
- $data = $parser->parse_file($ARGV[0]);
+
+%options = (
+    type => 'debian/control',
+    stripComments => 'true',
+    );
+
+ $data = $parser->parse_file($ARGV[0], \%options);
  foreach my $a (@$data) {
      next if exists $a->{"Source"};
      print ${a}->{"Package"}."\n";