Since http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=5cde141ef1e037aa540963f8356c0c556b47964d buildhistory hasn't been recording the FILELIST correctly. Current master/hardknott: $ grep FILELIST buildhistory/packages/all-poky-linux/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme/latest FILELIST = /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme $ grep FILELIST buildhistory/packages/all-poky-linux/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme-dev/latest FILELIST = /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme Reverting that commit restores the correct behaviour, where hicolor-icon-theme-dev has an empty FILELIST. The problem is that commit changes the lookup to load all subpackage data into a single datastore, so FILELIST gets overwritten.
Was this fixed by http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=dd6b55d70c0616e69ecc7366650cd0f7e1678bd8 ?
That commit does fix this issue according to Ross.
Yes, it was.