On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Is there a method of picking up this information [package version] > from a central source in the package?
You can just do what dpkg does - parse the changelog: /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian < debian/changelog | \ sed -n '/Version: /s///p' If you use a different changelog format, you'll have to call your parser instead. If you want just the major number for an soname, use '/Version: \(.*\)\..*/s//\1/p' as the sed command. Guy
