If I feed Deadwood an .info file like this:

; $Id $ 
name = Some Module 
description = Description
;dependencies = 
package = Good Design
version = "$Name$"

I get this:

; $Id $ 
name = Some Module 
description = Description
;dependencies[] = package
dependencies[] = =
dependencies[] = Good
dependencies[] = Design
version = "$Name$"
core = 6.x

Anything after a comment character (';') should be ignored and not parsed.

Thanks.