[tex-live] tlmgr: Is it possible to see the version number of a ctan package?

[Robin Fairbairns]

Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2009-11-29 21:31 +0000, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> > I missed that, too.
> > I added this in tlmgr (revision 16207), after line 904:
> >
> >       if ($tlp->cataloguedata) {
> >         print "version:    ", $tlp->cataloguedata->{'version'}, "\n";
> >         print "date:       ", $tlp->cataloguedata->{'date'}, "\n";
> >         print "license:    ", $tlp->cataloguedata->{'license'}, "\n";
> >       }
> 
> With this, 'tlmgr show hyperref' outputs
> 
>   ......
>   revision:   16230
>   collection: collection-latex
>   version:    6.79h
>   date:       2009-11-26 08:42:48 +0100
>   license:    lppl
> 
> But if you open hyperref.sty you will see '6.79k' is installed. Any idea
> whether this is a bug? Thanks.

what's a bug?

it would appear that (for one of the recent updates) the catalogue
maintainer (me) failed to update the catalogue.

hyperref is updated with bewildering frequency, and i obviously imagined
i had already done that update.  i catalogued 6.79h on 26th; version
6.79k appeared in cambridge on the 27th (via mirror overnight).  who
knows what happened to 6.79(i|j)?

i have now changed the catalogue repository.  as i understand it, this
means that the information will appear in texlive.tlpdb tonight, so that
(unless there's another new hyperref to subvert my attempts at keeping
up), things will be back in sync.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team