Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Xulrunner freedom bug: how to apply patch?

[Sam Geeraerts]

Christophe Jarry wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I found that the source code is the same for xulrunner-1.9 and
> xulrunner-1.9.1 on gNewSense metad:
>
>   $ apt-get source xulrunner-1.9
>
> gives the same file (xulrunner-1.9.1.4-2) as:
>
>   $ apt-get source xulrunner-1.9.1
>
> although the binary versions are different:
>
>   $ apt-cache show xulrunner-1.9 | grep -i version
>   Version: 1.9.0.19-6
>   Version: 1.9.0.19-3
>
>   $ apt-cache show xulrunner-1.9.1 | grep -i version
>   Version: 1.9.1.4-2
>
> How can this be possible?

(apt-cache show xulrunner-1.9 ; apt-cache show xulrunner-1.9.1) | egrep 
"Package|Source"

will show you that the source package of both is called "xulrunner". 
Apt-get's man page says that it will get "the newest available version 
of that source package", thus the newest version of 1.9.1.

> Beside, how do I know which version of xulrunner-1.9 is installed on my
> system: 1.9.0.19-6 or 1.9.0.19-3?

Either

apt-cache policy xulrunner-1.9 xulrunner-1.9.1

or lines starting with "ii" in

dpkg -l '*xulrunner*'