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.
