From f5484c33347b39b26992b23631210f04c9ef2819 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:52:07 +0200
Subject: bin/apt-perl: explain prefixes in docs

---
 bin/apt-perl | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'bin')

diff --git a/bin/apt-perl b/bin/apt-perl
index 6d3b3fd..dde1e10 100755
--- a/bin/apt-perl
+++ b/bin/apt-perl
@@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ B<apt-perl> I<command> I<package>
 B<apt-perl> displays various informations based on a I<package>s reverse
 dependencies
 
+The output is prefixed by two charactes, the former representing the desired
+package state, the latter the current state.
+
+The states are I<i>nstall, I<h>old, I<r>emove (deinstall), I<p>urge,
+I<u>npacked, halI<f> configured, I<h>alf installed, I<c>onfigfiles installed.
+An empty field means not installed.
+
 I<command> may be one of:
 
 =over
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