[Pkg-monitoring-maintainers] Bug#1007088: etbemon: Mismatched source format vs source version

[Guillem Jover]

Source: etbemon
Source-Version: 1.3.6-1
Severity: important
User: debian-dpkg at lists.debian.org
Usertags: dpkg-mismatch-source-vs-version-format

Hi!

This package uses a native source format, with a non-native version,
which is rather confusing and subverts the semantics of both the
source and version formats.

This currently produces a lintian error, and with dpkg-dev 1.20.1 it
started producing warnings, but my intention is to eventually make
it error out, given the above, and because this is a common source of
this kind of accidental packaging bug.

Please, either use a non-native source format, or a native version,
so that these are coherent.

From the historical data in snapshot.debian.org, this would appear as
the build was done with a missing orig starting with the 1.3.6-1 revision,
so dpkg-source considered it a native format? I'd recommend switching to
source format «3.0 (quilt)» where this kind of accident cannot happen.

Thanks,
Guillem