Bug#486754: standardize dummy package tags

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: wishlist

There ought to be a policy about how the package description of dummy
transitional packages is to be written. E.g., mandating a Tag
"dummy::transitional"(?) or something (also could differentiate different
kinds of dummies.)

That way users would have a sure-fire way of finding which packages
are dummies on their system, and which aren't, in order to delete them
if appropriate.

Currently one must poke around with e.g.,

$ grep-status dummy|grep dummy.*package
 This is just a dummy package. You also need one of the four versions of
Description: transitional dummy package
 This is a dummy package to ease the transition to libmime-tools-perl and can
 This is a dummy package to ease transition to new package name.
 This is a "dummy" package that depends on lenny's default version of

I didn't find any mention of them here.
cd /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -e zgrep -nH -ie dummy
nor relevant matches for "transition"