On 2024-05-29 Marco d'Itri <md-qmabpyjv...@public.gmane.org> wrote: > On May 28, Andreas Metzler <ametzler-4wvjbtcf...@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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. > I strongly disagree: it is a bad choice to change on upgrades a default > which may cause data loss. 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
