I think the Lintian check isn't strictly correct, but is probably close to as good as we can do without a bunch of false positives. The underlying rule of thumb is that literal hyphens, such as for flags, need to be \-, but the hyphen in the middle of a word, like "co-worker" should be left as-is. It's really difficult to figure that out with a regex, though, so Lintian uses a space before the hyphen as a proxy for guessing that it's probably part of a flag.
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