Bug#700715: Again...
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 06:21:01AM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> 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.
I don't like creating processes. I fixed this in the debian-sid branch;
I'll ask the RT whether we can include this in wheezy.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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