Alexander Pohl wrote:
I'm using a freshly installed and up to date version of Debian Sarge. In Woody uninstalled packages had a description for installed as well as uninstalled packages by default. I would like to get the descriptions back as it is really bad when you don't see the description of a package that you might want to install. Need help. Thanks, Alexander
I can't reproduce that dpkg -l '*mysql*' gives descriptions for uninstalled packages in my woody chroot; I think the current[Sarge] behavior is the way it's always been. I would suggest you either use a front end like aptitude, or else use apt-cache and/or grep-dctrl to search for packages that you might want to install.
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