Bug#43573: dpkg: dpkg -l foo and dpkg --print-avail foo inconsistent
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.6
Severity: normal
Clearly `dpkg -l' is lying about pike-perl:
% dpkg -l nvi pike-perl
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
hi nvi 1.79-9 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi.
pn pike-perl <none> (no description available)
% dpkg --print-avail nvi pike-perl
Package: nvi
Priority: important
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 508
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.79-9
Depends: libc6, libncurses4
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/editors/nvi_1.79-9.deb
Size: 263392
MD5sum: 0e41cfc5b757e43e6e720e9b3b747a6f
Description: 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi.
Vi is the original screen based text editor for Unix systems.
It is considered the standard text editor, and is available on
almost all Unix systems.
.
Nvi is intended as a "bug-for-bug compatible" clone of the original
BSD vi editor. As such, it doesn't have a lot of snazzy features as do
some of the other vi clones such as elvis and vim. However, if all
you want is vi, this is the one to get.
Package: pike-perl
Priority: optional
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 738
Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: pike
Version: 0.6.131-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libgdbmg1, pike (= 0.6.131-4), perl5
Conflicts: roxen-pike
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/interpreters/pike-perl_0.6.131-4.deb
Size: 308298
MD5sum: c9fed5c9a508492c7455b09b505b19ec
Description: Perl module for Pike
This Pike module makes it possible to use Perl code in Pike programs.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux pfaff 2.2.10int4 #1 Thu Aug 5 17:10:40 BST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
hi libc6 2.1.1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
hi libncurses4 4.2-3.2 Shared libraries for terminal handling
hi libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2 The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)
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