Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:15:41 -0400
Message-Id: <199704260315.XAA03170@localhost.bu.edu>
From: <swift@bu.edu>
Subject: dpkg: bottom status lines confusing
To: quiet@bugs.debian.org

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8

Suppose I am looking at the adduser package line.
When paging through the various information types with the `i' key, I get the
following two status lines:

"installed control info for adduser"
"available version of control info for adduser"

First: either of the following wordings are superior to the second line; I
prefer the first below because it is parallel, but it is perhaps harder to
understand anyway:
  "available version control info for adduser"
  "control info for available version of adduser"

Second: when the installed and available versions of adduser are reported to be
identical in the top half of the dselect window, then I ought to see the same
control info on each of the two bottom panels mentioned.  In fact I do not, the
"available version" seems to be a superset with a few more fields.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux localhost 2.0.30 #1 Thu Apr 24 13:34:49 EDT 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.23-2
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1