On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 11:27:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
awk is in the essential set in Debian, so this would be a very substantial amount of work.
{Docker image comaintainer hat on}
This is right. More specifically -- the Debian docker images are
(intentionally) -- "just" `debootstrap --variant=minbase`.
Changing what packages are "pre-installed" with the Docker image is not
a negotiation that we wanted to have in isolation as the people who keep
the image current. Our goal was to have an image that wasn't unique (or
suprising) to a Debian project member -- rather, IMVHO, the package(s)
should be added or removed from the minbase set via our usual
conventions.
This has come up from time to time (in the form of some people asking to'please install X', or 'why did Y go away') -- but the result and push to sync these two ecosystems (debootstrap and the image) is something I believe to be correct, and don't have any real intention of changing as of right now.
If we want to drop something from the Docker image -- that's great! I'd love that. It's just something we'd have to work through the usual process of changing priority, deps, or what have you. Which -- I will note -- benefits the whole operating system on all platforms, not just one container image (this is the way).
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