[RFC] should --version report the program's true name?

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$ ln -s setarch foo

$ ./foo --version
foo from util-linux 2.25.634-8501-dirty

But util-linux does not contain any program called "foo":

$ man foo
No manual entry for foo

Shouldn't --version report the name of the original program
instead of the name of the binary?  Just like the last line
of the --help output does:

$ ./foo --help | tail -1
For more details see setarch(8).

Benno

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