diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8a23ecf..e4da19d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+kfilemetadata-kf5 (5.6.0-0ubuntu2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Introduce a transitional package from libkf5metadata2 to 3
+    and data. This is to make sure that apt's resolver actually
+    manages to transit properly, which after multiple attempts at
+    making the dependency tree for a batch update from frameworks
+    5.2 and plasma 5.1 to plasma 5.2 simpler still didn't succeed.
+    Not perfect but better than wasting one's life on this crap.
+
+ -- Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org>  Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:43:15 +0100
+
 kfilemetadata-kf5 (5.6.0-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d5b3c79..ac6757e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -90,3 +90,11 @@ Description: library for extracting file metadata
  kfilemetadata is part of the KDE Plasma desktop.
  .
  This package contains the debugging symbols.
+
+Package: libkf5filemetadata2
+Depends: libkf5filemetadata-data, libkf5filemetadata3, ${misc:Depends}
+Architecture: all
+Priority: extra
+Section: oldlibs
+Description: transitional dummy package
+ This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.