[Debconf-devel] Bug#247134: debconf: affects backups

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 12:55:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 15, gambarimasu+reportbug at gmail.com wrote:
> > just wanted to say that many users will exclude /var/cache from
> > backups.
> Yes, this is the main issue: it is a best practice to exclude files in
> /var/cache/ from backups, but this way a restore will lose the whole 
> debconf database.
> 
> Can we get some feedback about this from the debconf maintainers?

Moving the database to /var/lib/debconf/ (in line with cdebconf) seems
fairly clearly the right thing to do; I'm sorry for having put this off
for so long.  I'll see if we can get that done for bookworm.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]