We should programatically get version numbers

[tsimonq2]

It's a bit of a rough-edged thing to do, but it would involve:

1. Finding a way to substitute version numbers of everything with just variables.
2. On build time, the packages files have to be pulled from archive.ubuntu.com, version of each package extracted from those lists (and only the upstream version, so in the case of 1.1.2-1ubuntu3 it would only extract 1.1.2 (code for this exists in misc projects around the Internet, you just have to find them)) and the variable would need to be substituted with this version.
3. Translations need to be updated too.

Anyone up for it?

[ArrayBolt3]

I realize I'm about 4 years late (hey, I've only been here for 3 months, so...), but is this still something that needs done? I'd be interested in helping with it if it's still on the radar.