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  1. Bug #714043
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Comment 19 for bug 714043

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 714043] Re: defaulting to staging is confusing

On 15 February 2011 02:07, Leonard Richardson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> "At the moment in Ubuntu's stable release, they must either hardcode a
> URL or do the moral equivalent through string manipulation, because
> there is no symbol for LPNET_SERVICE_ROOT"
>
> In 1.9.5, which is about to go into Ubuntu, the symbol for
> LPNET_SERVICE_ROOT is the string 'production'. We have similar simple-
> string aliases for all the active servers. I can add aliases for higher
> levels of abstraction as well, but I would like to know which aliases
> people will actually use.

Are you really changing that parameter from being a URL to being a
symbolic name? That seems likely to break client applications.