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Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default

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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

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Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2024-12-19 16:20 +0100
  Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-12-19 16:30 +0100
    Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2024-12-19 18:20 +0100
      Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2024-12-19 22:00 +0100
        Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2024-12-19 22:40 +0100
          Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2024-12-19 23:10 +0100
      Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Tianon Gravi <tianon@debian.org> - 2024-12-20 01:00 +0100
        Bug#1090811: please set linux-sysctl-defaults to Priority: important Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2024-12-22 16:10 +0100
          Bug#1090811: please set linux-sysctl-defaults to Priority: important Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2024-12-22 16:40 +0100
            Bug#1090811: please set linux-sysctl-defaults to Priority: important Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2024-12-22 16:50 +0100
          Bug#1090811: please set linux-sysctl-defaults to Priority: important Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2025-01-01 07:20 +0100
            Bug#1090811: please set linux-sysctl-defaults to Priority: important Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-01-01 13:10 +0100
              Bug#1090811: please set linux-sysctl-defaults to Priority: important Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2025-01-01 14:10 +0100
      Bug#1090811: debian-installer: install linux-sysctl-defaults by default Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-12-20 02:20 +0100

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