XPost: linux.debian.policy   
   From: sanvila@debian.org   
      
   On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 12:40:33PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:   
   > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 at 12:22:38 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:   
   > > While we are at it, I wonder if we could actually deprecate those   
   > > locations for forky, and what would be the steps for doing so.   
   >   
   > Which meaning of deprecated do you have in mind: the one where we discourage   
   > its use but it continues to work indefinitely, or the one where we plan to   
   > make it stop working? For /var/run, I think the first would be fine but the   
   > second would not.   
      
   I was actually thinking about actively encouraging everybody to do the   
   switch by dropping /var/run in unstable to see what breaks, but with   
   the intent of restoring it before forky becomes stable.   
      
   I believe we have done that sort of thing in the past (i.e. intentionally   
   breaking things in unstable in a reversible way), but I'm not sure if   
   this stragegy would be ok for /var/run at this point, or when it could be.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
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