Re: How to obtain current package version number?
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 17:34:47 +0100, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
wrote:
>> Well, I wouldn't have posted without first consulting policy and
>> developer's reference. Section 6.4 doesn't seem to document any
>> maintainer script of the package being installed being called with the
>> new version number as a parameter, so I was actually hoping that dpkg
>> sends that information in the environment or somewhere else.
>
>You can pull it in using a substvar, I think.
That sounds interesting. Can you elaborate? I know that I can use
substvars in my control file to get automatic dependencies on the libs
I use, but how does that transfer to maintainer scripts?
Greetings
Marc
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