Bug#3155: spice still on my system

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#3155: spice still on my system"):
> Package: spice
> Version: ?
>
...
> The status of spice is very (null):
> $ dpkg --status spice
> Package `spice' is not installed and no info is available.
>
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> $ grep spice /var/lib/dpkg/available
> $ grep spice /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> However a `.list' file exists:
> $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/spice.list
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1432 Jul  7  1995 /var/lib/dpkg/info/spice.list

This is very odd.  Was spice installed or removed with a very old
version of dpkg ?

Perhaps dpkg is leaving droppings.

Ian.