On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Parsing /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.gz is out of the question > since /usr/share/doc need not be present, and calling dpkg --list > $PACKAGE and parsing its output looks like bad overkill.
dpkg -l PACKAGE | awk '$2 ~ /PACKAGE/ { print $3 }'
> Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can
> write the version number to a file?
see policy section 6 for the ways in which maintainer scripts are
called.
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