MOZ-VERSION(1)

📦 version 0.54.2, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 MOZ-VERSION 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for moz-version from the mozilla-devscripts suite and honestly? it's a little icon and it deserves more hype. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

moz-version — the version format handling tool, aka your girl for translating between Mozilla-speak and Debian-speak 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

moz-version [options] action

like, options first if you want them, then the action. simple. clean. periodt.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

moz-version is a tool for working with version strings from the Mozilla suite. it literally does three whole jobs and it does them well:

  • it can compare Mozilla versions (so you know which one's the main character 👑)
  • it can convert a Mozilla version into a Debian upstream version
  • and it can do the reverse — Debian version back into a Mozilla version

both directions, no cap. it's giving bilingual 💜

🌈 ACTIONS 🌈

  • -c, --compare version1 comparator version2 — compares two version numbers, where comparator is a binary operator. moz-version returns success (a zero result) if the condition you asked about is satisfied, and failure (a non-zero result) if it isn't. the comparator has to be one of lt le eq ne ge gt. that's it, those six, no improvising 🙈
  • -d, --to-deb version — converts a Mozilla version into a Debian upstream version. heads up though: if you want a full Debian version, you still have to add a revision yourself, because this only does the upstream part. the rest is on you, bestie 🫶
  • -m, --to-moz version — converts a Debian version into a Mozilla version. and listen, it does a little cleanup while it's at it: the Debian revision and the epoch both get stripped away. gone. bye ✨

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -h, --help — shows you a brief help message. short, sweet, helpful 💖
  • -s, --silent — prints absolutely nothing, and if there's an error it dies silently. no drama, no output, just vibes 💀
  • -v, --verbose — prints more information. the chatty setting. yapping enabled 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> — the legend who made this whole thing happen, we stan 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this manual is from the mozilla-devscripts suite, dated August 2009 — yeah, it's been serving for a minute and it still eats 💅🦋 go compare some versions, you got this 💜

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