Comment 10 for bug 673350

The *.el symlink looks like an side effect of the a2ps postinst script. It should rightfully expect *.el to expand, but if it the files are not properly installed, this is what you will get. (Haven't looked at the script recently but IIRC this is how it works.) The root cause is still that some files have not landed on the disk when their package was installed.

There can legitimately be some empty .list files, not all packages ship actual files; for example, some packages are useful solely because their postinst scripts do something useful, or because they depend on a useful set of other packages. However, it would be great if you could include the list of empty .list files here as an attachments so we can compare with a legit install.

I note that your main file system is ext4; perhaps this is a clue?

I'll leave the Status as Incomplete to remind us that the list of empty .list files is still pending. Feel free to set the Status back to New once you have uploaded this. Thanks.