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Re: dpkg -s man page description



Matti Airas wrote:

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:33:18PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:


      dpkg -s | --status package-name ...
             Report  status of specified package. This just dis­
             plays the entry in  the  installed  package  status
             database.


A better explanation might go somehow like this:

"Display specific information of an installed package, such as its
installed size, maintainer, version, dependencies, and description."


How about: "Displays the entry in the installed package status database, which includes..." and so on.




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