Source: debian-installer Version: 20240914 Severity: normal The linux-sysctl-defaults provides a "sysctl configuration file setting some sensible defaults for Linux". Among other things, the settings provided by this package are needed in order to allow unprivileged users to run the ping(8) command, now that ping is no longer installed with CAP_NET_RAW.
As linux-sysctl-defaults is not strictly required by iputils-ping or any other components of the base install, it is only listed as a Recommends, and as such it does not appear to be installed by default. Thus I believe that it should be added to the list of packages explicitly installed by default during installation. 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. See the following for more context: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1008281 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027773 https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux-base/-/merge_requests/12 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089626 Thanks noah
