Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: support for merged /usr in Debian"):
> On Jan 05 2016, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > People who have been using a configuration for many years naturally
> > become upset when they are told that it has been `unsupported' for all
> > of this time
>
> Well, yes, but this is just a fact. I don't think it makes sense to
> avoid stating the fact because it makes some people upset - rather,
> those people should try to avoid blaming the messenger.
Whether a configuration is `supported' is not a fact; it is a
political decision about how problems with it will be handled.
Ian.
