> Bingo: > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.3/blob/master/debian/mariadb-server-10.3.preinst > > # Automatically set version to ease maintenance of this file. > # Assume the filename is /path/to/mariadb-server-##.#.preinst > # Pick version string based on location. Python equivalent would be x[-12:-8]. > VERSION=${0: -12:4} > > This look hacky. Could this assumption be false? > > $ ls -l debian-*.flag > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 25 10:09 debian-10.3.flag
Seems to be a mistake made in https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.3/commit/6b1f48b3fafa1f1c732d313fea20b8c035c7b776
