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@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ strategies to avoid these issues:
in these directories when they are no longer needed, in particular when the
program dies unexpectedly. Note: this strategy is only really suitable for
packages that operate in a "system wide singleton" fashion with "long"
- persistance of its data or state, i.e. as opposed to programs that run in
+ persistence of its data or state, i.e. as opposed to programs that run in
multiple parallel or short-living instances. This is because a private
directory under `/run` (and the other mentioned directories) is itself
system and package specific singleton with greater longevity.