Trying to install wine from winehq, on debian testing. No issue with that, but got an interesting result with -V: ... ... Suggested packages: libcurl4-doc (8.5.0-2) libgnutls28-dev (3.8.2-1) libidn-dev (1.41-1) libkrb5-dev (1.20.1-5) libldap2-dev (2.5.13+dfsg-5) librtmp-dev (2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-2+b2) libssh2-1-dev (1.11.0-4) gdbm-l10n:i386 hplip (3.22.10+dfsg0-4) hplip:i386 (3.22.10+dfsg0-4) libtap-harness-archive-perl (0.18-4) Recommended packages: sane-airscan (0.99.27-1+b1) libodbc1 libtiff5 libodbc1:i386 libtiff5:i386 The following packages will be REMOVED: sane-airscan (0.99.27-1+b1) wine I can understand that apt does not always show exact version in Suggested and Recommended, because these packages might not even exist, and version might complexly depend whetever it is going to be installed or not, some of them might conflict with each other, and in general could be costly to compute. But, REMOVED section should clear, because it should show the currently installed version: user@debian:~$ dpkg -l wine Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-==============-============-=========================================== ii wine 8.0.1~repack-3 all Windows API implementation - standard suite So, no idea why it is not showing version in the case of wine.