missing-debian-source-format
All reports of missing-debian-source-format for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:
Explicitly selecting a source format by putting the format in debian/source/format is recommended. This allows for future removal of the 1.0 default for the package source format and, depending on the source format, may allow unambiguous declaration of whether this package is native or non-native.
If you don't have a reason to stay with the old format for this package, please consider switching to "3.0 (quilt)" (for packages with a separate upstream tarball) or to "3.0 (native)" (for Debian native packages).
If you wish to keep using the old format, please create that file and put "1.0" in it to be explicit about the source package version. If you have problems with the 3.0 format, the dpkg maintainers are interested in hearing, at debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, the (technical) reasons why the new formats do not suit you.
Refer to the dpkg-source(1) manual page and http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 for details.
Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain
Check: debian-source-dir, Type: source
Evolution of the missing-debian-source-format Lintian tag over the past 240 days:
The package names link to the relevant maintainer page and the corresponding report for the source package. The links go to the full maintainer report page, which includes info and experimental tags and overridden tags, rather than the default page that shows only errors and warnings.