Systemd now essentially control Debian both the OS itself, and though Boccassi, the development.
This can pose problems. Boccasi steamrollered, but relatively politely.
People were more interested in bitching about edge cases where maintainers / projects / authors were doing things they should not have been doing in the first place than they were about addressing those issues, so he addressed them himself.
The man literally put up when others would not shut up.
But perhaps 30% could be in what you call "edge case", since your statistics is entirely based on yourself.
Good work pushing through it Boccassi!
Why not just have the installer _ask_ me what configuration I prefer? Is there some reason you have to force the change, announce a victory, then make me to go mucking with "defaults" after the fact?
You will have to disable it separately. From the article:
“To stop periodic cleanups of /tmp and /var/tmp users can run touch /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf.”
Because nobody bothered to actually put in some work to implement that. As I've said on the ML, if somebody does the work, I'll review it. But it's one of hundreds of different settings, and it's obviously not worth anybody's time to do this work, as it's largely inconsequential and trivial to configure via the supported config files. Complaining on social media is of course cheap enough that we get plenty of it.
Likewise if you make /akirastmp, the OS will leave it alone, but using the directories the OS clearly makes temporary for things that aren't should be the configuration to require manual setup since it's the unusual one.
(* Council's licensed private operators)
It's the Poettering way. And GNOME, for some reason.
I put it down to the level of monopolization of industry and to a certain extent our culture. These people mean well and they're mostly just reacting to a really baffling labor market in the face of a failed and entirely captured internet revolution.
With the right pair of eyes you can look across the dunes of github into the early 2000s and see where open source culture peaked, crashed, and rolled back.
Some people will see their stuff vanish from /var/tmp and that will be their day of learning. I guess they won't have a backup of files in there either. They were one misfire away from loss anyway.
Sure it feels different when the distro just ran over your misconceptions. On the other hand, when I encounter a stray tmp dir, I assume everything in it can be deleted with negligible consequences. So I tend to rm them without even a glance inside.
If half a dozen people in your town of 10,000 use bins for storing soup, but one year the council procures bins with holes in the bottom to keep rain from collecting in them (making them hard to move, and also providing stagnant water for mosquitoes, ie something that benefits nearly everyone)...
...what would be your opinion of a blitzkrieg of online and media criticism of the council for not considering the needs of soup binners...by people who do not store soup in their bins but are screeching about the needs of the people who do and they say will be affected by the change?
And then someone on the council has said "alright, fine, look...I doubt there's that many of these people. I'll go talk to them, who are they?" and the screechers admit they don't actually know any soup binners, so the councilmember looks them up and goes to the house of every soup binner and either plug the holes in their bin for them, gives them proper soup pots, or prints out a list of soup pots they can find on amazon...or finds out that they say "well gosh I had a soup pot in the attic but I never got around to using it, I'll just switch. Thank you for the heads up that the new bins will have holes in the bottom."