Bug#700715: Again...

[Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>]

The problem from the original report disappeared (I have no clue how), 
but a similar problem appeared on another box, with another package : 
dpkg -L correctly list the installed files, while in python I get an 
empty list. In fact, running:

from apt import *

cache=Cache()
problems=[]
for pkg in cache:
    if pkg.installed != None:
        if pkg.installed_files == []:
            problems.append(pkg.name)
print('%s: %d' % (str(problems), len(problems)))


shows hundreds of cases where a package is installed and the list of 
installed files is empty!

I don't know where to start to debug that problem...

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