Comment 2 for bug 278763

Installed Jaunty 9.04 Alph3. Any attempts to remove cupsys-driver-gutenprint, description:

Transitional package
This dummy package is provided for a smooth transition from the previous
cupsys-driver-gutenprint package (the package is replaced by
cups-driver-gutenprint). It may safely be removed after installation.

are met with the warning that removing this package will remove xubuntu-desktop. As this is a dummy package, why should I have to remove the desktop?