diff --git a/deluge/ui/webui/debugerror.py b/deluge/ui/webui/debugerror.py
index 3a9f32ec6..ad1f3011d 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/webui/debugerror.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/webui/debugerror.py
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#5
 __all__ = ["debugerror", "djangoerror"]
 
 import utils
-print utils
-print dir(utils)
-
 
 pretty_errors_str = {
 "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown":
@@ -43,6 +40,7 @@ from web import  template
 import web #import lib.webpy022.webapi as web
 import webserver_common as ws
 from traceback import format_tb
+from deluge import common
 
 Template = template.Template
 
@@ -344,10 +342,8 @@ def djangoerror():
         from render import render
         return render.error(pretty_errors_cls[exception_type])
 
-    version_info = (
-    "WebUi : rev." + ws.REVNO
-    + "Python : " + str(sys.version)
-    )
+    version_info = "WebUi : %sr%s\nPython %s:"   % ( common.get_version() ,common.get_revision(),sys.version)
+
     try:
             import dbus
             version_info += '\ndbus:' + str(dbus.__version__)
diff --git a/deluge/ui/webui/render.py b/deluge/ui/webui/render.py
index 708f512b7..610157891 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/webui/render.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/webui/render.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #  statement from all source files in the program, then also delete it here.
 
 #relative:
-from webserver_common import REVNO, VERSION
+
 from utils import *
 import utils
 #/relative
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ template.Template.globals.update({
     'fsize': common.fsize,
     'ftime':ftime,
     'render': render, #for easy resuse of templates
-    'rev': 'rev.%s'  % (REVNO, ),
-    'version': VERSION,
+    'version':common.get_version() ,
+    'rev': common.get_revision(),
     'getcookie':getcookie,
     'get': lambda (var): getattr(web.input(**{var:None}), var), # unreadable :-(
     #'env':'0.6',
diff --git a/deluge/ui/webui/templates/deluge/about.html b/deluge/ui/webui/templates/deluge/about.html
index 9e82db43f..42cd6daa7 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/webui/templates/deluge/about.html
+++ b/deluge/ui/webui/templates/deluge/about.html
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ $:render.header(_('About'), 'about')
 $:render.admin_toolbar('about')
 <div class="panel" style="text-align:left">
 <h2>Version</h2>
-<pre>$version </pre>
+<pre>$(version)r$rev</pre>
 
 <h2>Template</h2>
 Name: $get_config('template')<br />
diff --git a/deluge/ui/webui/utils.py b/deluge/ui/webui/utils.py
index dea46280b..eb138f65f 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/webui/utils.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/webui/utils.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ from deluge import component
 from deluge.log import LOG as log
 from deluge.configmanager import ConfigManager
 
-from webserver_common import  REVNO, VERSION, TORRENT_KEYS, CONFIG_DEFAULTS
+from webserver_common import  TORRENT_KEYS, CONFIG_DEFAULTS
 from deluge.ui.client import sclient, aclient
 
 webui_plugin_manager = component.get("WebPluginManager")
diff --git a/deluge/ui/webui/webserver_common.py b/deluge/ui/webui/webserver_common.py
index e2b2dee20..30a756d1a 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/webui/webserver_common.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/webui/webserver_common.py
@@ -34,15 +34,6 @@ webui constants
 """
 import os
 
-try:
-    REVNO = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'revno')).read()
-except:
-    REVNO = '<unknown:bzr-branch?>'
-try:
-    VERSION = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'version')).read()
-except:
-    VERSION = '<unknown:bzr-branch?>'
-
 
 TORRENT_KEYS = ['name', 'total_size', 'num_files', 'num_pieces', 'piece_length',
     'eta', 'ratio', 'file_progress', 'distributed_copies', 'total_done',