Re: How to get version information in common notation

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a
>> pkg at:
>>   http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev
>> 
>> It will show up with a version notation.  So I'm thinking the OS must
>> have that information somewhere.
>
> dpkg-query can display the information in whatever form you want. For
> example:
>
> dpkg-query --show --showformat '${Package} ${Version}\n'
>
> (package-version is rarely used in Debian because it's ambiguous;
> is foo-9-1 version 9-1 or foo, or version 1.2 of foo-9?)

My only excuse is that I had not run into dpkg-query yet.  Nice nice.
and thanks again for pointing it out.