Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.9 Severity: minor Tags: patch Since dpkg version 1.10, the query options of dpkg have been moved into dpkg-query. The documentation should reflect that.
--- dpkg.8.orig Sun May 26 04:53:43 2002 +++ dpkg.8 Thu Jan 2 00:40:15 2003 @@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ .fi Please refer to \fBdpkg-deb\fP(1) for information about these actions. +\fBdpkg\fP duplicates some options of \fBdpkg-query\fP(8): +.nf + \fB-l\fP, \fB--list\fP, + \fB-L\fP, \fB--listfiles\fP, + \fB-p\fP, \fB--print-avail\fP, + \fB-s\fP, \fB--status\fP, + \fB-S\fP, \fB--search\fP +.fi +See \fBdpkg-query\fP(8) for more flexible query possibilities. + .SH INFORMATION ABOUT PACKAGES \fBdpkg\fP maintains some usable information about available packages. The information is divided in three classes: \fBstates\fP, @@ -575,6 +585,7 @@ .br .SH SEE ALSO \fBdselect\fP(8), +\fBdpkg-query\fP(8), \fBdpkg-deb\fP(1), \fBdeb\fP(5), and -zefram
