How to obtain current package version number?
Hi,
how can a package learn about its current version number?
Parsing /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.gz is out of the question
since /usr/share/doc need not be present, and calling dpkg --list
$PACKAGE and parsing its output looks like bad overkill.
Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can
write the version number to a file?
Greetings
Marc
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