Hi Noah, Noah Meyerhans <no...@debian.org> (2024-12-19): > 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.
In either case, I'd recommend discussing it on e.g. debian-devel@, hopefully getting a consensus, and coming back to us with the results. I don't think the installer team should make that kind of decisions (in general), but if someone else is happy to take responsibility for this particular request, that's of course fine with me. 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.) Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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