Bug#700715: Again...
On 13 March 2013 23:18, David Kalnischkies
<kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The problem is that python-apt assumes a specific filename for info files:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/python-apt/debian-sid/annotate/head:/apt/package.py#L1048
>
> This changed with multi-arch as e.g. libraries will have the architecture
> attached to its name rather than the name alone as filename. So python-apt
> needs to look for both filename-styles until we found a better way to find
> the filename …
dpkg -L is one option.
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