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]

[Lyndon Brown]

On Wed, 2024-05-29 at 18:58 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> That is false dichotomy. data-loss will occur when people use /tmp or
> /var/tmp for persistent data-storage because "This has (for a couple
> of
> years) worked on Debian systems" not because "This has (for a couple
> of
> years) worked on *this* *specific* Debian system.".
> 
> cu Andreas

I think you might be missing the point that this is the *DEFAULT*
behaviour. You're free to override it. If you personally have no
precious data in tmp storage to worry about then after upgrade you can
simply tweak the config to enable the new behaviour, as I have done.

I'm using Sid and after doing a little reading up on the topic
yesterday after the upgrade I believe all that needed doing was to
delete the /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf file, which as I understand it
contains a simple override of the new behaviour defined in
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf.

FWIW I think Luca made a perfectly sensible choice here.