Software center shows transitional packages as addons

Bug #1067465 reported by Micah Gersten
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Bug Description

When selecting pidgin in Software Center in precise, I'm offered kdebase-workspace-bin as an Addon. The description as listed next to the checkbox is:
Transitional package for kde-workspace-bin

I think that S-C should try to either show the depended on package or igonre transitional packages..

This issue still occurs in quantal in 5.4.1.1

In theory, transitional packages shouldn't be left as suggests, but that's another problem :)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.2.6
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 16 13:03:22 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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