Re: How to obtain current package version number?

[Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr>]

En réponse à Marc Haber <mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de>:

> Hi,

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?

IIRC you can get it from the postinst parameters. You can have a look
to the policy, in maintainers scripts section.

Cheers,

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