With an update of Debian packages there was a message related to the speech dispatcher.
The older version of the program used the directory /var/run/speech-dispatcher, whilst this version 0.8.8-8 was looking to use the directory /run/speech-dispatcher
Given below is the relevant lines from the apt upgrade, relating to speech-dispatcher.
Setting up speech-dispatcher (0.9.0-5) ... [speech-dispatcher.conf:1] Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/speech-dispatcher → /run/speech-dispatcher; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly. [speech-dispatcher.conf:2] Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.cache → /run/speech-dispatcher/.cache; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly. [speech-dispatcher.conf:3] Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher → /run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly. [speech-dispatcher.conf:4] Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.cache/speech-dispatcher → /run/speech-dispatcher/.cache/speech-dispatcher; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly. [speech-dispatcher.conf:5] Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/speech-dispatcher/log → /run/speech-dispatcher/log; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.
The file in questions is
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/speech-dispatcher.conf
Below are the old file contents of this file
d /var/run/speech-dispatcher 0750 speech-dispatcher audio - d /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.cache 0750 speech-dispatcher audio - L /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher - speech-dispatcher audio - /var/run/speech-dispatcher L /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.cache/speech-dispatcher - speech-dispatcher audio - /var/run/speech-dispatcher L /var/run/speech-dispatcher/log - speech-dispatcher audio - /var/log/speech-dispatcher
And once more the revised contents of the file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/speech-dispatcher.conf
d /run/speech-dispatcher 0750 speech-dispatcher audio - d /run/speech-dispatcher/.cache 0750 speech-dispatcher audio - L /run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher - speech-dispatcher audio - /var/run/speech-dispatcher L /run/speech-dispatcher/.cache/speech-dispatcher - speech-dispatcher audio - /var/run/speech-dispatcher L /run/speech-dispatcher/log - speech-dispatcher audio - /var/log/speech-dispatcher
