Much the same information is provided by this option as by the --status option. While the status information is not presented here, the installed-size and architecture and package size fields are given in this listing.
Issuing the command:
dpkg --print-avail mc
produces the following output:
Package: mc
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 890
Maintainer: Fernando Alegre <alegre@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.5.17-1
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libgpm1, ncurses-base
Suggests: gpm
Size: 371140
Description: Midnight Commander - A feature-rich full-screen file manager. Midnight Commander is a feature-rich file manager. It has mouse support in a Linux console and in an xterm. It started as a Norton Commander clone but now it has new features on it's own.
It does not use libncurses, but it uses the terminfo database.
Support for XView and TCL/Tk is available, but it is still experimental. It is not included in the current binary.