I am attempting to build a local DEB package, loosely following Compiling ANTs on Linux and Mac OS:

workingDir=${PWD}
git clone https://github.com/ANTsX/ANTs.git
mkdir build install
cd build

cmake \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${workingDir}/install \
    -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ=OFF \
    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DRUN_LONG_TESTS=OFF -DRUN_SHORT_TESTS=OFF \
    ../ANTs

make -j 16 package

The resulting DEB package version starts with v. From the resulting file ANTS-build/CPackConfig.cmake:

[...]
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME "ANTs-v2.4.3.post10-g871cad0-Linux")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/ANTsX/ANTs")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIRECTORY "ANTS_Install")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_REGISTRY_KEY "ANTS_Install")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME "ANTs")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_RELOCATABLE "true")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VENDOR "CMake.org")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION "v2.4.3.post10-g871cad0")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR "2")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR "4")
set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH "3")
[...]

Unfortunately, recent versions of dpkg, such as dpkg 1.21 available on Ubuntu 22.04, complain if the upstream-version of a DEB package does not start with a digit. From the deb-version(7) man page:

           The upstream-version may contain only alphanumerics (“A-Za-z0-9”) and the characters .
           + - : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, tilde) and should start with a digit.  If
           there is no debian-revision then hyphens are not allowed; if there is no epoch then
           colons are not allowed.

Typical resulting error message:

$ sudo dpkg -i ANTs-v2.4.3.post10-g871cad0-Linux.deb
dpkg: error processing archive ANTs-v2.4.3.post10-g871cad0-Linux.deb (--install):
 parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 374 package 'ants':
 'Version' field value 'v2.4.3.post10-g871cad0': version number does not start with digit
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ANTs-v2.4.3.post10-g871cad0-Linux.deb

When did the error occur?

[X] CMake configuration (cmake / ccmake)
[ ] Compilation (make)
[ ] Installation (make install)

Build environment

• OS: GNU/Linux Ubuntu
• OS version: 22.04
• Type of system: desktop

ANTs version

master branch

Build configuration and logs

Additional context

Projects I know of on GitHub start version tags with a v, but drop the v when building tarballs or DEB/RPM packages.