This:
# set high-availability vrrp group VLAN3 priority 50;
Results in :
group VLAN3 { interface eth0.3 > priority "50;" virtual-address 10.3.1.1/24 vrid 3 }
vs
group VLAN3 { interface eth0.3 priority 50 virtual-address 10.3.1.1/24 vrid 3 }
And it successfully commits.
I'm not actually sure if it breaks anything, as keepalived.conf might ignore the extra colon.