I am using the Git Deploy module to show update information on the updates report page. This is necessary because I use drush with package-handler set to git_drupalorg to get the git information. This way no version information is needed in the .info file.
Problem: File_Entity module has a 'fake' version information of version = 7.x-2.x-dev in its .info file for some dependency reasons with the media module. This blocks the module update info to show up on the update reports page and doesn't even show up with drush pm-updatestatus.
I am not sure if this part of 'fake' code is still needed to keep things going but it is bad in a common work flow not to see available updates.

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grossmann CreditAttribution: grossmann commented

@dave-reid
You commited the following lines in 2011. 

; We have to add a fake version so Git checkouts do not fail Media dependencies
version = 7.x-2.x-dev

Maybe you can quick check if they are still needed. Else it would be nice to remove them as they break the update info as listed above.

p.s. Can someone explain me how to add a specific user reference to an issue similar to reference to an issue #2382507: Fake version info blocks update info in combination with Git Deploy module with [#123456]?