Bug#313448: gnome-system-tools: Creates ximian-setup-tools in binary-arch

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:

> El lun, 13-06-2005 a las 20:56 +0200, Santiago Vila escribi=F3:
> > Package: gnome-system-tools
> > Version: 1.0.0-1
> >=20
> > Package ximian-setup-tools is Architecture: all, so it should be
> > created only by the binary-indep target of debian/rules. Trying to
> > build this package using "dpkg-buildpackage -B" (what autobuilders do)
> > results in the ximian-setup-tools package being created, and it has to
> > be removed by hand.
> >=20
> > Since you are using debhelper, you might want to look at options -a and=
 -i,
> > which are common to all dh_* calls.
>=20
>  Now that sarge was released, the fate of this package
> (ximian-setup-tools) is to be removed, as it is a fake package created
> only for upgrading purposes.

Why not keep it for etch to support upgrades which skip sarge?
In the old days we tried to support this. Moreover, we can't argue
that dummy packages are difficult to maintain...