Comment # 4 on bug 1182476 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Thomas Wunner from comment #3)
> (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #2)
> > (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #1)
> > > I suspect the error is that %{version} from the .spec file somehow gets into
> > > the output of "docker --version" now, which it didn't do previously.
> > 
> > Yep, the issue is that the .spec file has
> > 
> > export VERSION="$(cat ./VERSION 2>/dev/null || echo '%{version}')"
> > 
> > but that broke when the build was converted away from docker-ce.git to the
> > split repos. It seems like the VERSION file from docker-cli.git isn't
> > directly usable, it only lists "-dev" versions.
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Does that mean that you change it?

No, as just fixing the path to VERSION resulted in the unusuable -dev version.