Presumably these stubs indicate to packagers that external leveldb is meant to be supported in some way. It is not. Remove the stubs to avoid sending any mixed messages.
For context, this was reported on IRC:
<Talkless> bitcoind fails to start with undefined symbol: _ZTIN7leveldb6LoggerE in Debian Sid after leveldb upgraded from 1.22 to 1.23: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996486