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]

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2024-05-28 Luca Boccassi <bluca-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org> wrote:
[...]
> - existing installations pre-trixie will get an orphaned tmpfiles.d in
> /etc/ that keeps the existing behaviour unchanged (no cleanup of
> /var/tmp)
[...]

Hello,

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.

cu Andreas
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