gnome-version.xml file in this package causes incorrect reporting from sysinfo package

[Chris McIntosh]

EXPECTATION
I expect to see the correct Gnome version reported when running sysinfo. But, what is reported by sysinfo is "2.32.1" when, in fact, I am running "3.2.1"

BACKGROUND
Originally, I filed a bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysinfo/+bug/896512) regarding the sysinfo package incorrectly reporting the wrong version of Gnome.

After digging around a bit, I discovered that the source of the error is the gnome-version.xml file in the gnome-desktop-data package.

To fix the problem (locally), I copied the <platform>, <minor>, <micro>, <distributor> and <date> information from the corresponding gnome-version.xml file from the gnome-desktop3-data package.

It is possible that gnome-desktop3-data seeks to replace gnome-desktop-data as each package refers to itself as the "gnome-desktop" in its corresponding README file.

If this is the case, then sysinfo will need to be corrected... to read from /usr/share/gnome/gnome-version.xml first... and, if that is missing, then (do what it is currently doing, and) read from /usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml. The latter file is from gnome-desktop-data and the former is from gnome-desktop3-data.

INFORMATION ABOUT MY INSTALLATION
lsb_release -rd reports:
   Description: Ubuntu 11.10
   Release: 11.10

version of gnome-desktop-data: 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6 (oneiric)
version of gnome-desktop3-data: 3.2.1-0ubuntu1.1 (oneiric)
version of sysinfo: 0.7-6 (oneiric)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-desktop-data 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6 [modified: usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 4 06:34:16 2011
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gnome-desktop
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (48 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the file sysinfo is using is what gnome-about in GNOME2 was using, it was never meant as a public stable information for other sources to use though and has been deprecated in GNOME3, sysinfo should find a better way to tell what version of GNOME is installed, I'm closing it as duplicate of bug #896512