preinst: get new pkg version to check for downgrade

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Subject: preinst: get new pkg version to check for downgrade
From: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:43:47 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] CANZNk81rmSPXg9MEzzoDf1JsVoqmXcSVCzf=ENoNiQzY=u_UTg@mail.gmail.com>

When preinst is called with $1 = "upgrade", $2 is set with old
version. How should I get programmatically the new version (the one
being currently installed), to compare with "dpkg --compare-versions".

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Andrey Utkin

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