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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No reason to take on tech debt if we don't have to. Certainly if a bunch
of people reply that it's an issue it's not impossible to do that. But
cruft is cruft, I'd rather be proactive on cleaning it.

Ted

On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 12:36 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:

> 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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