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13 <refentrytitle>madison</>
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20 <refpurpose>Utility to display information about packages</>
27 <arg><option><replaceable>options</replaceable></></arg>
28 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>package</replaceable></arg>
32 <RefSect1><Title>Description</>
34 <command>madison</command> is a utility to display information about packages, specificaly what suites they are in and for which architectures.
38 <RefSect1><Title>Options</>
41 <VarListEntry><term><option>-a/--architecture=<replaceable>architecture</replaceable></option></>
43 <Para>Restrict the packages being considered to the architecture(s) listed.</PARA>
47 <VarListEntry><term><option>-s/--suite=<replaceable>suite</replaceable></option></>
49 <Para>Only list package information for the suite(s) listed.</PARA>
53 <VarListEntry><term><option>-S/--source-and-binary</option></>
55 <Para>For each package which is a source package, also show information about the binary packages it produces.</PARA>
59 <VarListEntry><term><option>-h/--help</option></>
61 <Para>Show help and then exit.</PARA>
68 <RefSect1><Title>Diagnostics</>
70 <command>madison</command> returns zero on normal operation, non-zero on error.