As Niels explained last year this is the expected behavior. If you're rebuilding a package from Debian while targeting a Ubuntu release you can as well change the target Distribution (and you're suppose to if you're going to upload to Ubuntu, indeed the lintian message is totally right).
For those using pbuilder, just run lintian _inside_ the chroot, then you'll get the right lintian rightly configure for whatever distribution and release you're building for; there is an example hook for that too. ** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1303603 Title: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/+bug/1303603/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs