Can status column be made to contain only ii?

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

# grep RETT /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
# dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | wc -l
867
# dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii' | wc -l
136
# dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l
125
# dpkg -l | egrep -v '^ii'|'^rc' | sort
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
ic  xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:18.1.0-1 amd64        X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
||/ Name                      Version    Architecture Description
ri  libtirpc3:amd64           1.1.4-0.4  amd64        transport-independent RPC library
ri  libtirpc-common           1.1.4-0.4  all          transport-independent RPC library - common files
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

Is it normal for non-iis not to be reduced to 0? How to get rid of the
numerous rcs?
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