Unity-2d packages in Raring

[Colin Law]

On 1 April 2013 22:11, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just out of interest does anyone know why, on Raring, I keep getting
>> updates for unity-2d packages when unity-2d is, I thought, dead and
>> buried?
>
>
> Seems odd unless you are less than 12.10 but there could always be a
> deprecation period.

I am on Raring.
$ apt-cache policy unity-2d
unity-2d:
  Installed: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I do notice that they are all (unity-2d, unity-2d-spread and so on)
only a few kB each, perhaps they are just placeholders to satisfy
dependencies that have not been cleaned up yet.  On the other hand I
am getting updates to them every few days which seems odd.

Colin