source format 3.0 (git) with native version numbers

[Daniel Wozniak <dan@woz.io>]

Et-all,

I am trying to switch from source format 3.0 (native) to 3.0 (git) 
however I still want to maintain native versions on my packages and do 
not want to generate orig.tar.gz files.

If I simply change debain/source/format form native to git the package 
builds successfully and the source gets fetched correctly with apt-get 
source. Everything seems to be working as I expected. However, when 
lintian runs it throws an error.

internal error: could not find the source tarball at 
/usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/Util.pm line 967.

It think this is a bug in lintian but want to check here insights before 
filing a bug report.

Thanks,

~Daniel