Error in Debian package: Version string '1.1.1_1': invalid character in version number

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dpkg -i petit-current.deb
dpkg: error processing petit-current.deb (--install):
 parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'petit':
 error in Version string '1.1.1_1': invalid character in version number
Errors were encountered while processing:
 petit-current.deb

Debian 7 x64

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 27 Jul 2014 at 11:00

[sriramb12]

Hi I am facing this issue as well. Is there a plan to fix this?