"apt-cache show" shows wrong version of package

[Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de>]

Hi!

I'm running Debian Woody and I'm noticing strange differences in the
package version of glibc that I've installed on my system. Doing a

dpkg -l | grep libc6

reports

ii  libc6          2.2.5-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
Timezone
ii  libc6-dev      2.2.5-10       GNU C Library: Development Libraries and
Hea
ii  libc6-pic      2.2.5-10       GNU C Library: PIC archive library

(This is correct). But doing "apt-cache show libc6" reports

Package: libc6
[...]
Version: 2.2.5-10

AND in addition

Package: libc6
[...]
Version: 2.2.5-9.woody.4

(This was the previous version)

AND another one

Package: libc6
[...]
Version: 2.2.5-6

(The version before 2.2.5-9.woody.4)

Why does "apt-cache show" show so many different versions instead of just
mentioning the one that is currently installed on the system? I
tried running "apt-get clean" and "apt-get autoclean" didn't seem to
help.

Thanks in advance for any hints!

Greetings,

	Holger


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