Re: dpkg-query - package "un"packed, no version ???

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2013-09-02, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
>
> I actually thought the same for a bit, but apt-cache show vim-athena
> seems to show description just fine.
>

Well, I'm not getting the same output as you for the same packages, and
it's not the package description that apt-cache shows that seems to be
in question.

curty@einstein:~$ dpkg-query --list vim-athena
No packages found matching vim-athena.

curty@einstein:~$ dpkg -l \* | grep vim
ii  vim                   2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1       Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
ii  vim-common            2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1       Vi IMproved - Common files
un  vim-doc               <none>                            (no description available)
un  vim-gnome             <none>                            (no description available)
un  vim-gtk               <none>                            (no description available)
un  vim-lesstif           <none>                            (no description available)
un  vim-nox               <none>                            (no description available)
ii  vim-runtime           2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1       Vi IMproved - Runtime files
un  vim-scripts           <none>                            (no description available)
ii  vim-tiny              2:7.2.445+hg~cb94c42c0e1a-1       Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor 

For example.

curty@einstein:~$ dpkg-query --list vim-doc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version              Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
un  vim-doc              <none>               (no description available)