[nbpoole]

I posted a link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701527) to a Debian bug that explains the rationale (aside from the historical behavior argument) a little better: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308911

[insipid]

My apologies; I must have missed the comments in between my first looking at it and posting my comment.