Hi Re-reading the thread of this bug, there's still the solution based on debian-policy. Even though there's still no file that provide the policy version, this one can be extracted from debian-policy changelog with something like:
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz | head -1 | perl -n -E '/\((\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/; say $1;' 4.6.0 On the other hand, people might not like yet another dependency on cme. And it may be hard to explain a dependency on a pure doc package. And this will break in debian-slim container images because docs are not installed... oh well... :-/ Back to gregoa's proposal... On Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:49:04 CEST gregor herrmann wrote: > Implemented in git, but not uploaded because > > - I'd appreciate review from dod This regexp may be too strict: $std_ver =~ s|^(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\.\d+$|$1|; I don't know if policy people are committed to used 4 digits version. It may be better to extract the first 3 digits and call it a day. (i.e. $std_ver =~ s|^(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)|$1|; ) In any case, the program should croak if $std_ver is undef because the regexp does not match > - and I discovered a wrinkle: Which you fixed... All the best
