dpkg -L gives wrong files list

Binary package hint: dpkg

Distribution : Feisty
Reproducibility : Always

The command dpkg -L should list all files installed by a certain package, but very often it lists files which are not actually installed .

for example: dpkg -L gcc-4.1 gives , among all other files :

/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcc_s.so

which is not installed with that package.

To check this I have wrote a simple script, which shows packages with missing files and put their names in a file called missing

here's the script :

#!/bin/sh

for PName in $(dpkg -l | awk /^ii/'{print $2}'); do

    for FName in $(dpkg -L $PName); do
    if [ ! -e $FName ]; then
         echo "missing $FName!!!"
         echo $PName >> missing.dup
         break
    fi
    done
done
uniq missing.dup > missing
rm missing.dup