On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed a few transitional and dummy packages on my system, but there was > no common way to identify them. I think the following packages exist: > > a) dummy packages which depend on the new name of a package for > 1 - automatic updates after split or rename (e.g. xpdf-i) > 2 - dependencies > > b) meta packages which depend on the actual version family > (a lot of the python stuff looks like this)
Years ago, the apt author and I decided to use Meta-Package: yes for this. It's not an official header, however.