diff --git a/gi-find-deps.sh b/gi-find-deps.sh
index 8d06e96..e798a3c 100644
--- a/gi-find-deps.sh
+++ b/gi-find-deps.sh
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ function python_requires {
 		# Temporarly disabled... this is not true if the python code is written for python3... And there seems no real 'way' to identify this.
 		# echo "python-gobject >= 2.21.4"
 	done
-	for module in $(grep -h -P -o "(gi\.require_version\(['\"][^'\"]+['\"],\s*['\"][^'\"]+['\"]\))" $1 | sed -e 's:gi.require_version::' -e "s:[()\"' ]::g" -e 's:,:-:'); do
+	for module in $(grep -h -P -o ".*(gi\.require_version\(['\"][^'\"]+['\"],\s*['\"][^'\"]+['\"]\))" $1 | sed  -e 's:#.*::' -e 's:.*gi.require_version::' -e "s:[()\"' ]::g" -e 's:,:-:'); do
 		split_name_version $module
 		print_req_prov
 	done
diff --git a/gobject-introspection.changes b/gobject-introspection.changes
index f3fc16f..57a42f3 100644
--- a/gobject-introspection.changes
+++ b/gobject-introspection.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Aug 16 08:44:06 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Enhance gi-find-deps.sh: when scannig python file for
+  gi.require_version, make sure to ignore python comments (starting
+  with #).
+
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 Thu Aug 15 06:56:37 UTC 2013 - dimstar@opensuse.org