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  1. Bug #1091228
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1091228

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: No record of which source a package was installed from

@ John Swing
If and only if the said package/version still exists in one of your sources. Otherwise it's reported as:
$ apt-cache policy linux-image-3.7.0-5-generic
linux-image-3.7.0-5-generic:
  Installed: 3.7.0-5.13
  Candidate: 3.7.0-5.13
  Version table:
 *** 3.7.0-5.13 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Or a slightly more descriptive name in Synaptic is "local or obsolete"