The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit fbe07e934f267077d2abdf1c286f03c84f4035ea
Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Date: Fri May 18 04:24:12 2012 +0200
dpkg(1): Clarify that the «dpkg -l» example only lists installed packages
Also add a reference to «dpkg-query --load-avail» as a way to list
available packages.
Closes: #673305
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 45dfe6c..422f37c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ dpkg (1.16.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Thanks to Roger Leigh <rle...@debian.org>.
* Add support for “none” as a valid dpkg-deb compression strategy value.
Closes: #674711
+ * Clarify in dpkg(1) that the «dpkg -l» example only lists installed
+ packages, and that to list available packages «dpkg-query --load-avail»
+ has to be used instead. Closes: #673305
[ Updated man page translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index b19fe87..1b58a4f 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -757,7 +757,10 @@ Defined by \fBdpkg\fP on the maintainer script environment
to the
name of the script running (preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm).
.
.SH EXAMPLES
-To list packages related to the editor \fBvi\fP(1):
+To list installed packages related to the editor \fBvi\fP(1) (note that
+\fBdpkg\-query\fP does not load the available file anymore by default, and
+the \fBdpkg\-query\fP \fB\-\-load\-avail\fP option should be used instead
+for that):
.br
\fB dpkg \-l \(aq*vi*\(aq\fP
.br
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