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[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.

You will not be able to find all that might use the old name by asking
Ubuntu Phone mailing list :).

Hence, providing deprecation with warnings etc. for a while sounds
like the way to go for name transitions like this.

Is the cost of carrying that "debt" really that bad?



> Ted
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> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 12:36 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
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> Is there a particularly good reason to not provide a symlink, or a
> wrapper script that issues a deprecation warning when run, for
> compatibility?
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> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 11:13 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
>> Hello Folks,
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>> Upstart App Launch is dead, long live Ubuntu App Launch!
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>> 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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