Re: Dummy packages and metapackages (call for consistency in the descriptions)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andreas Tille wrote:
> The meta packages builded by cdd-dev for instance contain data for building
> user menus which might override the menu entries of the dependant packages
> for the special purpose.  This is definitely something else than
> debian/control but sounds to me definitely well placed in this kind of
> packages.  Moreover the package might contain extra documentation for
> the dependant packages which seems to be reasonable in the meta package
> context.

IMHO, drop the "Meta" prefix, then.  There is no shame in doing so.

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