[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#666698: initscripts: Should RAMTMP default to no on upgrade?

[Moray Allan]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-22
Severity: normal

Many DDs appear to think that tmpfs-for-/tmp only happens with new 
installations, not on upgrade to wheezy.  This is not actually the case 
at present.

Either the behaviour should be changed, so that it *does* only happen 
for new installations, or the wheezy release notes should clearly point 
to the change.  (Since previous default installations had a certain 
amount of swap, then a single partition taking up the rest of the disk, 
but users may now wish to increase swap to allow a larger tmpfs for 
/tmp, the release notes should also include instructions on how to 
decrease the size of a non-LVM root partition in order to make more room 
for swap.)

-- 
Moray

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3
ii  debianutils     4.2.1
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  lsb-base        3.2-28.1
ii  mount           2.20.1-4
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-22
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-22
ii  ucf             3.0025+nmu2

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.1-2
ii  psmisc     22.16-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

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