Bug#920314: lintian: vcs-field-has-unexpected-spaces has false positives

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:43 AM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>   * Can you confirm that "hg clone <url> -b foo" works? If so, we
>     should update Policy to (at least) also permit "-b branchname"
>     or "[branchname]" for Mercurial repos.

The manpage suggests that -b works for hg, but hg is rare enough in
Debian that I'm not personally interested in updating policy for it.

I agree with the suggestions here that none of these are currently
valid according to Debian Policy. Could you please update the Lintian
extended description for this tag to link to
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version-control-system-vcs-fields
?
Once that's done, feel free to close this bug.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha