apt/package.py: Add Package.get_version() which returns a Version instance

for the given version string or None (Closes: #523998)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apt/package.py b/apt/package.py
index 48d14595..0dcc8b74 100644
--- a/apt/package.py
+++ b/apt/package.py
@@ -994,6 +994,13 @@ class Package(object):
         """
         return [Version(self, ver) for ver in self._pkg.version_list]
 
+    def get_version(self, version):
+        """Get the Version instance matching the given version string."""
+        for ver in self.versions:
+            if ver.version == version:
+                return ver
+        return None
+
     # depcache actions
 
     def mark_keep(self):