On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 12:55:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 15, gambarimasu+report...@gmail.com wrote: > > just wanted to say that many users will exclude /var/cache from > > backups. > Yes, this is the main issue: it is a best practice to exclude files in > /var/cache/ from backups, but this way a restore will lose the whole > debconf database. > > Can we get some feedback about this from the debconf maintainers?
Moving the database to /var/lib/debconf/ (in line with cdebconf) seems fairly clearly the right thing to do; I'm sorry for having put this off for so long. I'll see if we can get that done for bookworm. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
