Bug#1023155: lintian: vcs-field-has-unexpected-spaces false positive

[Bradford D. Boyle]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: bradford...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Running lintian for a package that contains 'Vcs-Git' field with the
following value

https://github.com/greenplum-db/greenplum-db-for-debian.git -b main [gpdb]

results in the 'vcs-field-has-unexpected-spaces' tag being reported. If
I change the value to

https://github.com/greenplum-db/greenplum-db-for-debian.git [gpdb] -b main

the warning is not printed. According to the Debian Policy Manual
(S5.6.26)

> In the case of Git, the value must have the following syntax:
>
> <url> [ " -b " <branch> ] [ " [" <path> "]" ]


with kindest regards,
--Bradford

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-2-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.39-8
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1
ii diffstat 1.64-1
ii dpkg 1.21.9+b1
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.9
ii file 1:5.41-4
ii gettext 0.21-9
ii gpg 2.2.40-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6
ii iso-codes 4.11.0-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b1
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b3
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-2
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.32-1+b1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2+b1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.9
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-2
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3
ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-2
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004004-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-3
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-1
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4
ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-3
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.124-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b1
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.009-1+b2
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b2
ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.001+ds-1+b1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.001+ds-1+b1
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-2
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.27-1+b1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b1
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.13-1+b2
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b2
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b4
ii liburi-perl 5.16-1
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.15-1
ii libwww-perl 6.67-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.84+ds-1+b1
ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.23-4
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.11.0-1+b1
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.36.0-4
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-27
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2.1

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1

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