From: pebenito@ieee.org (Chris PeBenito)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 20:15:27 -0500
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH] /var/run -> /run
In-Reply-To: <201703061816.39301.russell@coker.com.au>
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On 03/06/17 02:16, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 12:53:06 AM Chris PeBenito via refpolicy wrote:
>>> On Debian /var/run is a symlink to /run.  Are there any distributions not
>>> doing this?
>>
>> I'd prefer to keep it.  Is keeping it causing a problem?
>
> The problem is that programs that haven't been updated since 2011 won't ever
> be updated unless we look for them.
>
> In Debian screen has just been fixed due to the bug report I filed.

There's nothing preventing distros from removing it for that purpose. 
For upstream, I'd like to keep as much compatibility as (reasonably) 
possible.

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Chris PeBenito