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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