What's the right way to extract a package's version from the header metadata?

["Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>]

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Recently I replaced pkg-info (a now abandoned package) with the following snippet in some of my packages:

(defconst cider-version
  (eval-when-compile
    (lm-version (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)))
  "The current version of CIDER.")

The above snippet is from CIDER, but I've used this code in several places.
Basically I want to extract the package version from the *Version:* header instead of having to duplicate it. I know of  package-get-package-version, but I assume it won't work for people who didn't install my packages via package.el.  

However, a bunch of users immediately started to complain that cider-version became nil for them, so clearly I made some mistake. The problem is that I'm not sure what's wrong and how to best proceed, so I hope that someone here might give me some pointers. My best guess is that I shouldn't use load-file-name, but rather something else. More context - https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/commit/096c18418e1e7c379f4d1f3d3622baaf3308859a and https://github.com/clojure-emacs/sayid/pull/59

Thanks in advance for your help!


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