On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Ted Gould <t...@ubuntu.com> 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.
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 > > > 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 >> > > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp