* Rich <richlv@nakts.net>, 2014-01-04, 01:29:
and escaping exactly one minus after space was enough to see the problem gone even if second minus was left un-escaped.
I don't see such behavior here. You have to escape all the minuses.It is true that Lintian could report more instances of hyphen-used-as-minus-sign than it currently does. I wouldn't call it "incorrect check" though...
-- Jakub Wilk