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?)
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