def list_repo_pkgs(*args, **kwargs):  # pylint: disable=unused-import
    """
    .. versionadded:: 2017.7.0

    Returns all available packages. Optionally, package names (and name globs)
    can be passed and the results will be filtered to packages matching those
    names.

    This function can be helpful in discovering the version or repo to specify
    in a :mod:`pkg.installed <salt.states.pkg.installed>` state.

    The return data will be a dictionary mapping package names to a list of
    version numbers, ordered from newest to oldest. For example:

    .. code-block:: python

        {
            'bash': ['4.3-14ubuntu1.1',
                     '4.3-14ubuntu1'],
            'nginx': ['1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4',
                      '1.9.15-0ubuntu1']
        }

    CLI Examples:

    .. code-block:: bash

        salt '*' pkg.list_repo_pkgs
        salt '*' pkg.list_repo_pkgs foo bar baz
    """
    if args:
        # Get only information about packages in args
        cmd = ["apt-cache", "show"] + [arg for arg in args]
    else:
        # Get information about all available packages
        cmd = ["apt-cache", "dump"]

    out = _call_apt(cmd, scope=False, ignore_retcode=True)

    ret = {}
    pkg_name = None
    skip_pkg = False
    new_pkg = re.compile("^Package: (.+)")
    for line in salt.utils.itertools.split(out["stdout"], "\n"):
        if not line.strip():
            continue
        try:
            cur_pkg = new_pkg.match(line).group(1)
        except AttributeError:
            pass
        else:
            if cur_pkg != pkg_name:
                pkg_name = cur_pkg
                continue
        comps = line.strip().split(None, 1)
        if comps[0] == "Version:":
            ret.setdefault(pkg_name, []).append(comps[1])

    return ret