dpkg hiding packages?

[Bill <bill@sanac.net>]

Hi,

i've got a sad situation i don't understand: dpkg -l don't seems to be hiding 
some packages from my view.  this is disturbing since I use dpkg as my 
information source on what software I can easily install on my systems


dpkg just dosen't see the package:

tormentor:/etc/apt# dpkg -l '*coda*'
No packages found matching *coda*.

tormentor:/etc/apt# dpkg -l coda-server
No packages found matching coda-server.

apt-cache and apt-get both see it:

tormentor:/etc/apt# apt-cache show coda-server
Package: coda-server
Version: 5.3.17-1
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Depends: coda-update, rvm-tools, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), liblwp2, libncurses5 (>= 
5.2.20010310-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.2-2), librpc23, librvm1, 
libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810)
Architecture: i386
Filename: debian/binary-i386/coda-server_5.3.17-1_i386.deb
Size: 628300
MD5sum: c29c35616bdaa1c71dbf2315ac7ab4ca
Description: Server for the Coda distributed file system
 Coda is an advanced distributed filesystem. It has been developed at CMU
 by the systems group of M. Satyanarayanan in the SCS department.
 .
 This package provides the binaries to set up a Coda server.
 .
 For more information see http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
source: coda
installed-size: 1824

tormentor:/etc/apt# apt-get -s install coda-server
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  coda-update librpc23 librvm1 rvm-tools 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  coda-server coda-update librpc23 librvm1 rvm-tools 
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 221  not upgraded.
Inst librpc23 (1.13 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Inst coda-update (5.3.17-1 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Inst librvm1 (1.6 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Inst rvm-tools (1.6 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Inst coda-server (5.3.17-1 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Conf librpc23 (1.13 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Conf coda-update (5.3.17-1 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Conf librvm1 (1.6 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Conf rvm-tools (1.6 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)
Conf coda-server (5.3.17-1 www.coda.cs.cmu.edu)

(this comes from sources.list's :
"deb http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux debian/binary-i386/")


is there a way to sync those two?  is this a feature of some sort?

thanks!

Bill


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