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Re: How to obtain current package version number?



Marc,

> Well, I wouldn't have posted without first consulting policy and
> developer's reference. Section 6.4 doesn't seem to document any
> maintainer script of the package being installed being called with the
> new version number as a parameter, so I was actually hoping that dpkg
> sends that information in the environment or somewhere else.

You can pull it in using a substvar, I think.

   Simon

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