Control: reassign -1 general
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 04:24:49PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 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.
FWIW, we have added linux-sysctl-defaults to the sid/trixie VM images
built by the cloud team.
noah
I think "Priority: important" is probably appropriate here?
Then it's installed by default in standard / d-i, but not part of minbase, buildd, etc.
(It wouldn't affect/do anything in most container images or runtimes anyhow, which is also an argument for it being harmless to include. 🤷)
❤️,
- Tianon