Hi! On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 12:26:02 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.7 > Severity: important
> Something is wrong with --print-avail. It used to give usefule package > information for installed packages, but now it seems to be broken: It has never printed information about installed packages, but about available ones (from repositories or external sources). What dpkg used to do was to update the available information whenever it installed a package, but that was in principle wrong, as dpkg didn't record the path to them and as such it had no way to know if those package might or might not be available. This is the case since dpkg 1.17.11. > $LANG=C dpkg --print-avail reportbug > dpkg-query: package 'reportbug' is not available > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. > > reportbug *is* installed on my system. However, Sure, but dpkg is complaining that it has no information about the available packages (i.e. those from the repository). > $ LANG=C dpkg --print-avail dpkg > works fine and shows the expected output. I'm using severity important, > as reportbug-ng needs --print-avail to get the package dependency > information, see below. Are you sure it's printing information about the currently installed package and not an old version? Please compare with the output from «dpkg-query --status dpkg». In any case, if you need information about the currently installed package the correct interface is «dpkg-query --status» anyway. So I'm planning to close this report if there's no additional information indicating there's an actual bug here. :) Thanks, Guillem
