Wrong revision number when compiling older revisions

[Pupu Toivonen]

When compiling HIPL, the system automatically fills in a revision number it gets from 'bzr version-info'. This is always the revision number of the latest revision, regardless of which revision the current working tree represents. This happens on both debian and rpm -platforms, likely during generation of the configure script.

Steps to reproduce:
bzr co lp:hipl trunk
cd trunk
bzr revert -r 6419
autoreconf --install
./configure
make deb
ls ..

hipl_1.0.8-6446_amd64.changes hipl_1.0.8-6446.tar.gz hipl-daemon_1.0.8-6446_amd64.deb hipl-doc_1.0.8-6446_all.deb trunk
hipl_1.0.8-6446.dsc hipl-all_1.0.8-6446_all.deb hipl-dnsproxy_1.0.8-6446_amd64.deb hipl-firewall_1.0.8-6446_amd64.deb

[Pupu Toivonen (scolphoy)]

Doing an actual checkout for the old revision (bzr co -r 6419 lp:hipl trunk_rev6419) gets the revision number right.