The referenced Debian bug was about sanitizing the migration like postinst steps. These fixes of the systemdare in Wily and Xenial due to merges of the package.
Eventually we have to conclude that we have a new intended behavior and not really a bug. If you actually want the old behavior the bug holds workarounds provided by Martin Pitt - thanks a lot. For those who want more detail please take a look at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/man5/tmpfiles.d.5.html I'm not sure if the correct bug state would be Invalid or Opinion now - IMHO I'm setting invalid, but feel free to change. ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1444958 Title: STC830:Brazos:br311p06: file(s) are deleted from the /tmp after each reboot on Ubuntu OS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1444958/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs