On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 08:18, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > > 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.
> - two paragraphs have been provided for the release notes ticket
