This happens due to cdbs explicitly setting the versioned dependencies in debian/control.
Example package that's affected: libticket-simple-perl One way to work around this is to leave the source stanza alone for packages that have their build deps set by cdbs. debmutate will need to surface what template format is being used though. -- Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@jelmer.uk> PGP Key: https://www.jelmer.uk/D729A457.asc