Hi Chris,
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 07:44:30PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Nicholas,
>
> > [I] wrote the attached convenience script ;-) Unfortunately the
> > script requires a manual 'apt policy package'
>
> Codswallop. *grin*
Indeed! :-D
> How about (untested):
>
> $ rmadison --suite=stretch-backports $(dpkg-parsechangelog -SSource) \
> | awk '{ print $3 }' | grep . || echo '0~'
Thank you, I didn't yet know about these parts of devscripts. I'll
get to work studying rmadison and will work on a backport script that
will get the latest version from stretch, stretch/updates, or
stretch-backports, then use that for the -v$LATEST_VERSION_IN_STRETCH,
and otherwise do the right thing for a package NEW to stretch.
rmadison has nice output so this looks possible with a single query!
Truly, thank you!
Nicholas
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