On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: [..] > > > In theory, if we don't want to explicitly install the package in d-i, > > > another possibility might be to bump it to Priority: standard and let > > > tasksel install it. I'm not sure what the tradeoffs might be that would > > > drive the decision one way or another. [..] > > Regarding tasksel vs. Priority, the latter has a potential for a much > > wider impact: lots of Debian system are installed without d-i and/or > > tasksel, and most if not all would get the package via Priority. (Think > > of all the tools building Debian images, chroots, containers, etc., on > > top of debootstrap/mmdebstrap/etc.) > > I'm not sure it's the case that most of those other systems install > Priority: standard. Debootstrap certainly doesn't by itself, and I > don't think the debuerreotype tool for building OCI images does either. > In any case, your point still stands. I'll re-assign this to general > for now, and we can discuss the options in a broader context.
We have a mechanism for installing iputils-ping into "most" systems, why not use the same mechanism to install linux-sysctl-defaults? Systems that want iputils-ping likely also want linux-sysctl-defaults. Chris
