Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.25 Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, In a new installed system with Debian 9.6 $ dpkg -l will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'. But if i run: $ dpkg -l w* (or dpkg -l 'w*' , it doesnt matter in a current dir with no 'w' files.) i will get a dozen also of 'un' packages. So i dont understand the logic of altering the output when i use a pattern . I would expect to see only 'ii' packages starting from the letter 'w' . Some of the listed 'un' packages are virtual, or pure virtual and some even dont exist anymore , like 'wink' , but i found also 'un' packages that seem ordinary packages. So basically i get output that dont make sense to me. How to intepret it? Also i dont understand why in a new system dpkg would know anything about uninstalled packages! (unless ofcouse as man dpkg-query reports are previous installed ones). -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2+b1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3 ii tar 1.29b-1.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.4.8 pn debsig-verify <none> -- no debconf information
