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Re: Renaming to: Ubuntu App Launch

 

Is there a particularly good reason to not provide a symlink, or a
wrapper script that issues a deprecation warning when run, for
compatibility?

On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 11:13 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> Upstart App Launch is dead, long live Ubuntu App Launch!
> 
> We've discussed it before and I've got a MR ready for UAL to make the
> naming change so that we're ready to move away from Upstart as our
> Init system. I'd like to work with folks on running sed through their
> code and landing this change next week. If you've got a test script or
> something that is dependent on the name "upstart-app-launch" please be
> prepared to change. In theory, we should be able to do it in one silo
> and folks shouldn't notice, I'm just worried about dependencies that
> are external to debs or not mentioned. If you have a dependency that
> you know of that I'm unlikely to find, please mention it.
> 
> If for some reason this seriously effects you in a negative way,
> please speak up now!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ted
> 




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