Priority of libsasl2 in etch

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

# dpkg -s libsasl2
Package: libsasl2
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 72
Maintainer: Debian Cyrus SASL Team <pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: cyrus-sasl2
Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-8
Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8)
Description: Authentication abstraction library
 This is a transitional dummy package.  If nothing depends on it, this
 package can be safely removed.

If it's a dummy package, why is it "important", and "Section: libs"?
Could we please change this to "optional" and "oldlibs" before the release?

Thanks.