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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> how can a package learn about its current version number?
Package information is stored in /var/lib/dpkg/available.
There is already a package parsing this information: grep-dctrl
You can do it yourself with awk/sed/whatever though.
> Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can
> write the version number to a file?
# example: current bash version number
BASH_VERSION=`grep-available -P -s Version -n -r '^bash$'`
Ciao,
Bastian
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