Re: Bug#966621: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]
On Wed, 29 May 2024 00:44:29 +0200, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
>On May 28, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> wrote:
>> I think it is bad choice to deliberately have different behavior for
>> freshly installed and upgraded systems. Offering upgrades has always
>> been one of the major selling points of Debian, and imho this
>> implicitely includes that you do not get a worse or second class Debian
>> installation when you upgrade it than if you installed from scratch.
>I strongly disagree: it is a bad choice to change on upgrades a default
>which may cause data loss.
I also think that a change of this kind is release notes material. A
system having been updated for two decades is bound to carry some
cruft.
Greetings
Marc
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