Bug#875433: [packages.debian.org]: filelist link not working (package farbfeld in sid)

[Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org>]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 13:31:15 +0200 Laura Arjona Reina
<larjona@debian.org> wrote:

> I can reproduce the problem. However I tested a different package
> (dianara) and the links worked both for official and unofficial
> architectures.

Thanks Laura for filing this bug. What I did notice is that the
filelist, even when it works, is sometimes inaccurate. For example

https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/parallel/filelist

does not list the files that are actually installed by the sid package.
This is the output of `dpkg -L parallel' on sid:

http://paste.debian.net/985832/

I don't know how the filelist thing works, but here is a wild guess of
what could be wrong. The script that generates the file lists stopped
working some time ago. File lists that were already existing at that
time are still shown, but never updated (the case of parallel). For new
packages (farbfeld), the file lists are not generated at all.

Paride