Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, and apologize for the redundancy if it
> has, but I would suggest that the package maintainers create stub scripts
> that refer back to the legacy commands. I.e. /usr/bin/puppet just calls
> 'puppet main'.
>
> The single executable is a good idea, but I see two problems:
>
> 1) Legacy scripts will all need to be updated to use the new syntax

Always a problem.  Personally, I would hope that *upstream* ship legacy shims
in the next major release, then include a deprecation warning in the one after
that, then finally remove them in three major releases — to give us laggards
time to catch up.

> 2) No tab completion

    http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bash-completion

        Daniel

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