I don't know whether it's a bug or not. This problem seems to be ignored by upstream, ticket 3077 (http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=3077) hasn't been closed neither as invalid nor fixed. But perhaps it was simply missed. For 2.*, micro version is reported correctly. Certain checks in firefox sources suggest, that many developers expect micro version to be reported for 3.* too. It seems, that following line in configure.ac messes things up: VERSION=[`cat $srcdir/VERSION | sed 's/^\([0-9]*\.*[0-9]*\).*/\1/'`] So, could one of the devs here ping upstream about it ?
The problem was introduced by check-in 2153.
fixed upstream now