From: benjamin@mesing.de   
      
   Thank you for your report, the detailed description and the screens.   
   With the help of all that, I am able to reliably reproduce this bug.   
   Apparently the status is not shown correctly, if the package is not   
   available (any more) in the Debian distribution. That is at least, what   
   the missing Debian icon in your synaptics screenshot suggests. I was   
   able to reproduce this for the package "tasque" on my machine, which is   
   only in oldstable.   
   This will give me leverage to find a solution for this problem, though   
   it might be some time until I find the time to tackle this issue.   
      
   Kind regards   
   Benjamin    
      
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