> The problem is for scripts, like decode-dimms (and sensors-detect, for
> the lm-sensors part.) We can't "#include <version.h>" from these, and

Well, version.h only changes per release, or? So, when preparing a
release, the release script could parse version.h and modify the
scripts.

> Also including the date turned out to be very convenient to figure out
> quickly if a user report was from a recent enough version of the script
> (particularly useful for sensors-detect, of which the latest snapshot
> was available for direct download and in-place execution.)

This one is more tricky, agreed.