diff --git a/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/.bzrrev b/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/.bzrrev
index 43a218e5a02..ae9aba985b5 100644
--- a/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/.bzrrev
+++ b/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/.bzrrev
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7524
\ No newline at end of file
+7525
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/t/008filter.t b/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/t/008filter.t
index 0c38380df1c..c0ee3b1314b 100644
--- a/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/t/008filter.t
+++ b/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/t/008filter.t
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ foreach my $path (@Support::Templates::include_paths) {
 
         # /g means we execute this loop for every match
         # /s means we ignore linefeeds in the regexp matches
-        while ($slurp =~ /\[%(.*?)%\]/gs) {
+        while ($slurp =~ /\[%(?:-|\+|~)?(.*?)(?:-|\+|~)?%\]/gs) {
             my $directive = $1;
 
             my @lineno = ($` =~ m/\n/gs);
@@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ sub directive_ok {
     my ($file, $directive) = @_;
 
     # Comments
-    return 1 if $directive =~ /^[+-]?#/;        
+    return 1 if $directive =~ /^#/;        
 
-    # Remove any leading/trailing + or - and whitespace.
-    $directive =~ s/^[+-]?\s*//;
-    $directive =~ s/\s*[+-]?$//;
+    # Remove any leading/trailing whitespace.
+    $directive =~ s/^\s*//;
+    $directive =~ s/\s*$//;
 
     # Empty directives are ok; they are usually line break helpers
     return 1 if $directive eq '';