make-kpkg modules_clean UTS Release version problem

[John Talbut <john@dpets.demon.co.uk>]

I am trying to recompile my Kernel using exactly the same steps as I 
have used successfully previously.

When I do make-kpkg modules_clean it exits with:

test -d ./debian/stamps || mkdir debian/stamps
exec debian/rules  DEBIAN_REVISION=rev.01  modules_clean
The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h
     ""
does not match current version:
     "2.6.15"
Please correct this.
exit 2
make: *** [modules_clean] Error 2

Is this a bug?  Has something changed in the package source?  An 
Internet search reveals some other people have had this problem but the 
only thing that seems to have been solved is a similar bug some time ago.

I am using up to date Etch packages, in particular kernel-package (10.036).

I note that in the /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset Changelog it states:

2006-02-27  Manoj Srivastava  <srivasta@debian.org>

	* modules.mk (@echo "does not match current version):
		  srivasta@debian.org--etch/kernel-package--devel--9.0--patch-123
		  Check the version information we shall be feeding the
		  modules versus the stuff in $UTS_RELEASE_VERSION