XPost: linux.debian.policy   
   From: rouca@debian.org   
      
   Le vendredi 20 février 2026, 12:22:38 heure normale d’Europe centrale   
   Santiago Vila a écrit :   
   > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 11:03:38AM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:   
   > > Russ Allbery [08/Feb 11:36am -08] wrote:   
   > > > This feels like the sort of change that maybe we should discuss on   
   > > > debian-devel if it feels like we have consensus here on the Policy list.   
   > >    
   > > I think if the maintainers of the packages in which the change would be   
   > > effected are on board, we don't need to do that.   
   >    
   > For /var/run and /var/lock, I believe systemd already has those symlinks   
   > as relative.   
   >    
   > I also think it would be better to have them relative, and the main   
   > reason I reassigned this from base-files to debian-policy is that I   
   > wanted to avoid anybody telling me that I was violating policy by   
   > doing the change on my own...   
   >    
   > 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.   
   >    
   > There is a small anomaly in the way base-files handles /var/lock   
   > (see #1082498) and Helmut tells me that fixing the anomaly the right   
   > way might require additional code similar to the one introduced in   
   > base-files 13.3 for the usr-merge.   
      
   I think for /var/lock we could use dpkg-maintscript-helper dirtosymlink   
      
   The only condition is that the link should be relative to ./run/lock instead   
   of /run/lock   
      
   rouca   
   >    
   > I don't have any hurry in fixing the anomaly, but maybe if we   
   > deprecate /var/lock first, fixing the anomaly would be easier   
   > (i.e. not requiring use-merge-grade machinery).   
   >    
   > Thanks.   
   >    
      
      
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