Whether or not "transitional dummy package" is informative, that is what
the Debian wiki currently recommends you use for the synopsis.
<http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> And for all I know, maybe
there are scripts or other tools for renaming a package, which embed
that string in their code. If they exist, is it practical to change them
to be more context-sensitive?
If not, then we have to reduce the visible redundancy ourselves. Two questions:
1. Why do transitional dummy packages need updates at all? What needs updating
about an empty package?
2. The description of most of those packages says that it "can safely be
removed". Why aren't we removing it instead of updating it?
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Confirmed
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