Jonathan H N Chin writes ("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:
I agree that dpkg -l should print something if the package is
available but no installed version info or description is available.
But, I'm going to make this "Severity: wishlist".
Ian.