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

[Robin Fairbairns]

Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> > i have now changed the catalogue repository.  as i understand it, this
> 
> Is there a need to do the update of the version number *manually*?

there's no fixed way of recording a version number, and while your way
is common, it's by no means a majority (and parsing it, without latex in
the loop, might be challenging ... non trivial in an automatic
procedure)

so i've never tried.

r