Comment 10 for bug 762505
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 762505] Re: Outdated in Natty, please merge from Sid | #10 |
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:16:13PM -0000, Philipp Gassmann wrote:
> So what about softlinking it instead of defunctioning?
I don't think a heavyweight transition here is warranted. Any backwards
compatibility solution we would implement would bring its own set of
problems (breaking external log rotation scripts, e.g.); IMHO it's really
better in this case to have a clean break.
> Isnt messages a standard you should respect?
No, it's no standard, only a convention.
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