Deutex: display full version number including Debian revision

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Jun 2 07:19:44 UTC 2014


Hi again,

Am Sonntag, den 01.06.2014, 13:16 +0200 schrieb djcj: 
> Since deutex has been at version 4.4.902 for a long time, diplaying the 
> full version with "--version" including Debian revision might be a good 
> idea.

because why?

Thanks for the suggestion, but what advantage does it bring? The
"--version" parameter is expected to report the upstream version number
and it does exactly that. The package revision is a Debian specific
detail that is better queried e.g. by "dpkg -l deutex".

- Fabian





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