Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.0.1 Severity: wishlist There ought to be a policy about how the package description of dummy transitional packages is to be written. E.g., mandating a Tag "dummy::transitional"(?) or something (also could differentiate different kinds of dummies.)
That way users would have a sure-fire way of finding which packages are dummies on their system, and which aren't, in order to delete them if appropriate. Currently one must poke around with e.g., $ grep-status dummy|grep dummy.*package This is just a dummy package. You also need one of the four versions of Description: transitional dummy package This is a dummy package to ease the transition to libmime-tools-perl and can This is a dummy package to ease transition to new package name. This is a "dummy" package that depends on lenny's default version of I didn't find any mention of them here. cd /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -e zgrep -nH -ie dummy nor relevant matches for "transition" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
