pkginfo lookalike for debian?

[Mauricio <supremedalek@hotpop.com>]

	My solaris box has a proggie called pkginfo which shows which 
packages I have currently installed in my machine:

raub@kushana-2>pkginfo
system      BOLTpget             pkg-get - CSW version
system      CSWcommon            common - common files and dirs for 
CSW packages
application CSWexpat             expat -  XML Parser Toolkit
system      CSWggettext          ggettext - GNU gettext
[...]
system      SUNWypr              NIS Server for Solaris (root)
system      SUNWypu              NIS Server for Solaris (usr)
system      SUNWzip              The Info-Zip (zip) compression utility
system      SUNWzlib             The Zip compression library
system      SUNWzsh              Z shell (zsh)
application TSIpgxw              PGX32 (Raptor GFX) X Window System 
Support v3.0
raub@kushana-3>

How do I do that in debian?