Hardcoded version info breaks update report with git deploy

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.
The Panels module added a hardcoded version information of version = PANELS_VERSION in the panels.info file for version dependency reasons with other modules. This blocks the module update info to show up on the update reports page and doesn't even show up with drush pm-updatestatus.