version not visible

[Trombonista]

mintstick seems not to show a version, neither in GUI nor when called from shell, even with option --debug. Usual option "--version" is not recognized.
I have seen that in Mint 20.1 cinnamon-edge.

[xenopeek]

You can use apt version mintstick to show the version.

A change to add the --version flag was rejected previously. It was rejected because it hardcoded the version in the code, or invoked dpkg from the program (not cross-distro) to get the version. If any wants to implement this do it in a way that other Linux Mint programs written in Python do, with a Debian rule. See __DEB_VERSION__ in mintupdate https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/search?q=__DEB_VERSION__&type=code or in mintreport https://github.com/linuxmint/mintreport/search?q=__DEB_VERSION__&type=code for examples.