Full story: I installed feisty on my desktop machine, I actually noticed
that the installation process was slow.. I used a RW CD, so I thought
that maybe the slowness was due to the media I used. The installation
process ended up with an error such "files list file for package `*' is
missing final newline" but when I rebooted the comp was going fine.

I customized it a bit, turned gl effects on, etc but then I noticed that
apt was still throwing that error refusing to install any packages. I
looked on the duplicates bugs and found the forum post mentioned above.
I played a bit with apt files under /var, but then apt had another error

dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libgnome-media0' missing, 
assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `netcat' missing, assuming 
package has no files currently installed.
[...]

so I wrote a little script that reinstalls every packaged mentioned in
those warnings. Now apt works without complaining.

Rmabo3, you are right, I also would like to know how it happened, but I
really wanted feisty and did my best to fix this thing.

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files list file for package `*' is missing final newline
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