gloobus-preview fails to show version on "--version" command

[Satchit Bhogle]

satchit@awesomeness:~$ lsb_release -rd && apt-cache policy gloobus-preview
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
gloobus-preview:
  Installed: 0.4.5-ubuntu11~ppa263+3
  Candidate: 0.4.5-ubuntu11~ppa263+3
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.5-ubuntu11~ppa263+3 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gloobus-dev/gloobus-preview/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This displays the version number of gloobus-preview installed via PPA. However, using the command "gloobus-preview --version" throws up the following error:

satchit@awesomeness:~$ gloobus-preview --version

** (gloobus-preview:14056): WARNING **: option parsing failed: Unknown option --version

(gloobus-preview:14056): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_new_for_commandline_arg: assertion `arg != NULL' failed

(gloobus-preview:14056): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_uri: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(gloobus-preview:14056): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_parse_name: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what(): basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
Aborted