The bad results are also reproducible with:
# dpkg -l python3.2
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 python3.2 3.2.3-7 ia64 Interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 3.2) |