Bug#966621: Many people have entire music collections on /var/tmp

[Michael Biebl]

On Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:39:17 +0800 =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson 
<jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> Many people have entire music collections on /var/tmp. So at least they
> should be asked upon upgrade if they are aware that it is about to get
> suddenly wiped out.

/var/tmp is not the place to store your music collection and I highly 
doubt that a significant number of people actually do that. So no, I 
don't think this is a valid concern. Should we change the default, I 
certainly don't plan to add a debconf prompt.

I'm more worried about long running systems: servers which run for 
weeks, where the time based clean-up might remove files that are used by 
a (running) service.

Regards,
Michael