On 05.07.2012 20:18, Steve Langasek wrote:

>> We've implemented /run despite it not being in the FHS.
> 
> We've implemented /run, as a special exception approved in Debian Policy,
> for those bits of the filesystem previously stored in /var/run and
> /var/lock.  No such exception has been granted for /media, nor should there
> be.

Just for clarification, this exception was added after /run had already
been implemented.
Neither the FHS nor the debian-policy are set in stone and e.g. the FHS
eventually caught up what was implemented by the distros.


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