OpenSSL version command

[Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>]

Slightly topical question ... I just installed the OpenSSL security 
update, and then fired it up ... and asked it what its version is :

  OpenSSL> version
  OpenSSL 0.9.6c 21 dec 2001

  glimmer:~$ dpkg -l openssl
  ii  openssl           0.9.6c-2.woody.6  Secure Socket Layer (SSL) ..

and wondered ... shouldn't it really identify itself a little better 
than that ?

Couldn't it say something like 
  OpenSSL> version
  OpenSSL 0.9.6c - Debian 19 jan 2004
or even 
  OpenSSL> version
  OpenSSL 0.9.6c 21 dec 2001 (Debian 19 jan 2004)
if it must ?

I'm a great believer in software being helpful ... when you ask it 
things :)

Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK