validator breaks with leading spaces in BDep versioning

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$ fink validate x11/libxaw3dxft.info 
Validating package file x11/libxaw3dxft.info...
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string eq at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1291.
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string eq at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1291.
Error: use of PatchFileN requires declaring a BuildDepends, Depends, or (rarely) Pre-Depends on:
	fink (>= 0.30.0)

libxaw3dxft.info does in fact use PatchFile2, but it does list fink ( >= 0.30.0 ) in BDep.

BuildDepends: <<
	x11-dev, 
	fink-package-precedence (>=0.31-1), 
	fontconfig2-dev, 
	freetype219, 
	xft2-dev, 
	pkgconfig,
	fink ( >= 0.30.0 ),
	automake1.15,
	autoconf2.6 (>= 2.69-5),
	libtool2,
	util-macros,
	system-xfree86-dev (>= 3:2.7.112-3)
<<

The space between the opening ( and the >= breaks the validator. If I remove that, then the validator is happy. It doesn't care about the trailing space.