Bug#181170: dpkg: -l cannot get status to match desire if purged
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: wishlist
lets say we purge a package, then list it:
# dpkg -l dpkg-www
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|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
+++-==================-==================-====================================================
pn dpkg-www <none> (no description available)
well, true, it is a cosmetic problem, but as you see, there is no way
to make the desired state letter match the status letter, as all there
is is "Not/Installed" and no matching category. therefore we never
reach our desires, one could say. so maybe rename something.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.9 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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