command line option --version does not work

[Tony Byrne]

$ quickly create ubuntu-application "test project"
Congrats, your new project is setup! cd test-project/ to start hacking.
$ test-project/bin/test-project --version
test-project %ver

in helpers.parse_options() there is command
parser = optparse.OptionParser(version="%prog %ver")
but Python 2.6 Documentation suggests
parser = OptionParser(usage="%prog [-f] [-q]", version="%prog 1.0")
so it seems that helpers.parse_options() should contain something like
parser = optparse.OptionParser(version="%prog %s" % some_version_lookup_function())
but I cannot find a suitable function or data

this command was introduced in revision 281 2009-09-04 to fix bug 418355 so it might be an API change in optparse