plink -V is broken

[salva]

Running the following command

    plink -V

It outputs

    plink: Unidentified build, Oct 14 2014 09:01:04

The real version number (0.63) is missing!

On windows I get

    plink: Release 0.63

Being able to get the right version is important as scripts may like to check that it is recent enough before using it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: putty-tools 0.63-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 11 22:49:53 2015
Dependencies:
 gcc-4.9-base 4.9.1-16ubuntu6
 libc6 2.19-10ubuntu2.1
 libgcc1 1:4.9.1-16ubuntu6
 multiarch-support 2.19-10ubuntu2.1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-01-08 (1829 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091209)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: putty
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-04 (129 days ago)

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

This should naturally get fixed when 0.64 is released upstream and then packaged for Debian/Ubuntu.

In 0.63 and earlier, there's a complicated manifest system so that any local patches (such as Debian/Ubuntu have) cause 0.63 source to no longer declare itself as 0.63. In 0.64 that will be gone.
http://tartarus.org/~simon-git/gitweb/?p=putty.git;a=commit;h=4d8782e74fed043fdf549718f99494622fe9e79b

[salva (sfandino)]

Great!

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

Most still-supported Ubuntu releases package a new enough codebase not to suffer from this.

Only Trusty (0.63) and Precise ESM (0.62) are old enough to suffer this cosmetic issue (but I haven't confirmed that they do).