On Wed, 29 May 2024 00:44:29 +0200, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: >On May 28, Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> 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.
I also think that a change of this kind is release notes material. A system having been updated for two decades is bound to carry some cruft. Greetings Marc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
