I guess that could work, although from what I gathered it operates only on the current package. I was hoping to find something like an API like `(package-get-version 'package-name)`. 

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021, at 3:58 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I'm wondering if there's an API for obtaining metadata about installed
> > packages, in particular the version information.
> > For years I was using this function from pkg-info
> > https://github.com/emacsorphanage/pkg-info/blob/master/pkg-info.el#L65, but
> > I'm wondering if it'd be easy to strip one dependency from my packages. 
> 
> Are you looking for `package-get-version`?
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>         Stefan
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