Re: dpkg - the letter prefixes.. what do they mean

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

dman wrote:
> 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
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  vim            6.0.226-1      Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

I wonder if this minor change would make the ascii art vaguely more
understandable:

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
vvv-==============-==============-============================================
ii  vim            6.0.226-1      Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

Here is another version:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
||Prob?=Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Prob: uppercase=bad)
||| Name           Version        Description
vvv-==============-==============-============================================
ii  vim            6.0.226-1      Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

I prefer this last one. Comments?

Oh well, dpkg 1.10 will have dpkg-query that can be used to generate
much better formed reports.

-- 
see shy jo, vaguely remembering when he found this confusing