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

[Robin Fairbairns]

Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO tlmgr printing version is good despite all possible
> irregularities. However one should remember that some packages have
> version numbers carefully hidden and some seem to have no version
> number printed at all.
> 
> Sometimes not so new packages on CTAN have very recent file creation
> dates and there could be many reasons for that starting from the
> silent update by the author.

there's a common practice of "minor bug corrected, not enough to merit
an announcement" (i presume that's what you mean?).

i did one such 10 minutes ago.

> This a matter of "c'est la vie" as we
> used to say in half-Russian/half-French during my student years

which part of c'est la vie is russian?

(i picked up very little colloquial russian when learning it; the only
thing i remember is "an old friend is a _droog_, a new friend is a
_tovarishch_"[*], but it doesn't quite fit "c'est la vie" sort of
effect.)

robin

[*] 1989 seemed a long way away in the '50s and '60s when i was learning
russian.