Comment 3 for bug 400131

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

It could be a good idea to mark this package as transitional, in the short description, since /etc/update-motd.d/ is already provided by base-files, update-manager-core and update-notifier-common, thus completely deprecating update-motd. The addition of (transitional dummy package) to the short description would make it easier for upgrade tools to spot and purge update-motd completely.