Re: Shared libraries and version handling
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Is there a method of picking up this information [package version]
> from a central source in the package?
You can just do what dpkg does - parse the changelog:
/usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian < debian/changelog | \
sed -n '/Version: /s///p'
If you use a different changelog format, you'll have to call your
parser instead. If you want just the major number for an soname, use
'/Version: \(.*\)\..*/s//\1/p' as the sed command.
Guy
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