This proposal requests relaxing Policy's copyright rules to allow for
completely empty packages that contain no files for use in transitions.
The contention was that such packages would then be immediately forgotten
by dpkg rather than lingering on the system.
There is no response in the bug to
Package: policy
Severity: normal
Policy says:
12.5 Copyright information
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its
copyright and distribution license in the file
/usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be
compressed nor be a symbolic link.
In addition,
Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This does not work well with transitional packages that are completly
empty. The idea is that dpkg will automatically forget about the
transitional package after upgrade allowing for example to rename a
package without leaving a dummy package under
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