Josh Triplett <[email protected]> writes:

> The transitional package exists only for upgrades, and need not get
> installed on new systems, so it can have priority optional or extra
> instead.  Please consider detecting transitional packages with priority
> standard or above, and warning about them.

In fact, transitional packages should always be priority: extra and
section: oldlibs, I believe, for the best chance of correct detection and
handling in various package management tools in Debian.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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