Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> writes:

> Dpkg has the ability to vanish empty packages. A dummy package should
> be completly empty and not even contain a /usr/share/doc/.

Such a package is explicitly forbidden by Debian Policy.  You need to
propose a Policy change if you want to do this.  I believe it was
discussed some time past, and the general consensus was against doing
this, but I could be misremembering.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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