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Description of problem:
Gnome-shell was rebased to version 3.26.2-5 in RHEL7.5. That can be confirmed from the rpm version and rpm changelog:

 # rpm -q gnome-shell
 gnome-shell-3.26.2-5.el7.x86_64

 # rpm -q  --changelog gnome-shell|less
 <snip>
 * Fri Nov 03 2017 Kalev Lember <klember> - 3.26.2-1
 - Update to 3.26.2
 - Related: #1481381
 </snip>

But "gnome-shell --version" is reporting wrong version:

 # gnome-shell --version
 GNOME Shell 3.25.4

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.26.2-5.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "gnome-shell --version" command on RHEL7.5 system.

Actual results:
Command report GNOME Shell version 3.25.4

Expected results:
Command should report actual version of gnome-shell

Additional info:

I believe dup of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511454

gnome-shell switch build systems to meson, which we didn't support prior to RHEL 7.6. So we included a downstream patch to add back autotools support, but we(*) forgot to update the version in the patch to the actual tarball version.

It's an easy fix for 7.5.z if we want it, other versions are unaffected.

(*) me probably, didn't check

(In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #3)
> gnome-shell switch build systems to meson, which we didn't support prior to
> RHEL 7.6. So we included a downstream patch to add back autotools support,
> but we(*) forgot to update the version in the patch to the actual tarball
> version.
> 
> It's an easy fix for 7.5.z if we want it, other versions are unaffected.
> 
> (*) me probably, didn't check

If it's an easy fix, can we include in RHEL7.5.z?

just want to add that this was known issue from very early stages in RHEL-7.5 but we haven't been able to fix it back then, there is also problem with wrong version displayed in control-center

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511454

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1511454 ***