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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, won't it break all existing click apps when the update is
installed? Or will the update regenerate all installed click .desktop
files for the user as well? If not, then at least a symlink will be
required until they are all regenerated.


On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 11:43 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> 
> 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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