Bug#935931: debian-installer: Reinstalling Debian on a current Debian installation without erasing or fomatting the home folder
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer, this is a feature request.
Debian related distros like POP!_os and ElementaryOS, when the system is
installed in one partition: I mean inside "/", have the ability to recognize
the previous installation and reinstalling the system without erasing the user
folders already existing, so you can reuse your actual existent user. It would
be a nice feature having the same on Debian; for desktop installations this
eliminates the necessity to have partitions separated while you can reinstall
your system several times for whatever reason. Even macOS has this feature
since a very long time.
Best regards,
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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