plink -V is broken
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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putty (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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
ProcVersionSign
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)
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. tartarus. org/~simon- git/gitweb/ ?p=putty. git;a=commit; h=4d8782e74fed0 43fdf549718f994 94622fe9e79b
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