Jonathan H N Chin writes ("Bug#43573: dpkg: dpkg -l foo and dpkg --print-avail 
foo inconsistent"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.1.6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Clearly `dpkg -l' is lying about pike-perl:

I agree that dpkg -l should print something if the package is
available but no installed version info or description is available.

But, I'm going to make this "Severity: wishlist".

Ian.

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