Bug#630707: bibutils: CLI option --version does not display version at all

[Patrice Pillot]

Package: bibutils
Version: 4.12-2
Severity: normal

The --version option does not display anything useful :

  pillot at ataz [2502] ~  bib2xml --version
  bib2xml, bibutils suite version  date

Here is what is displayed on a machine running stable (hence with
bibutils 4.8-1) :

  pillot at uc24:~$ bib2xml --version
  bib2xml, bibutils suite version 4.8 date 2/2/10

Incidentally, this breaks some Plone product I'm using
(CMFBibliographyAT) which uses the output of the command to check for
compatibility. In this precise case, the workaround is not hard to find,
but I fear this might not be the case in other circumstances.

Compiling the source package grabbed from upstream site works right :

  pillot at ataz [2539] /tmp/bibutils_4.12-upstream  ./bin/bib2xml --version
  bib2xml, bibutils suite version 4.12 date 10/10/10

Original sources as carried by bibutils_4.12.orig.tar.gz, once compiled
by hand, do work normally, too :

  pillot at ataz [2561] /tmp/bibutils_4.12  ./bin/bib2xml --version
  bib2xml, bibutils suite version 4.12 date 10/10/10

I don't know debian build system enough to understand why VERSION and DATE are
not set or passed correctly at build time, sorry.

FWIW, I'm using the standard wheezy gcc (4:4.6.0-5).

Thanks in advance,

pp

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bibutils depends on:
ii  libbibutils2                  4.12-2     bibliography file converter, share
ii  libc6                         2.13-4     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

bibutils recommends no packages.

bibutils suggests no packages.

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