> -b, --build directory [format-specific-parameters]
> Build a source package (--build since dpkg 1.17.14).
> <...>
>
> dpkg-source will build the source package with the first
> format found in this ordered list: the format indicated
> with the --format command line option, the format
> indicated in debian/source/format, “1.0”. The fallback
> to “1.0” is deprecated and will be removed at some point
> in the future, you should always document the desired
> source format in debian/source/format. See section
> SOURCE PACKAGE FORMATS for an extensive description of
> the various source package formats.
Thus it would be more foolproof to explicitly use 1.0 (as we always
did) than to rely on dpkg-source's defaults.
* In a similar vein, debian/rules is not made executable by mkdebian,
and dpkg-source warns about that but still silently fixes the file.
Let's be explicit once again.