[clug] apt naming convention

[Drew Parsons]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:25 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 06:14:13PM +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > Etch already has Apace 2.2.3, happily.
> Ok I got it.. apt-get doesn't tell me the versions, I need to use
> apt-cache showpkg apache2 and that tells me. Now I'm with it! :) Feel much
> more comfortable now.
> 


dpkg -l gives versions too, albeit without epochs.  You can also find
the version in the topmost entry
in /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz

Drew