Bug#920314: lintian: vcs-field-has-unexpected-spaces has false positives for Vcs-Hg that specify a branch

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 920314 - moreinfo
retitle 920314 lintian: vcs-field-has-unexpected-spaces has false positives for Vcs-Hg that specify a branch
thanks

Hi Jeremy,

> >   * 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've filed #920355 against Policy for this. "Be the change...", right?

> I agree with the suggestions here that none of these are currently
> valid according to Debian Policy.

Doesn't mean that Lintian can't deviate! I'll update it now to
allow -b for Vcs-Hg and link to the relevant section in Policy.


Best wishes,

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