Source: debian-installer Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, using debian-12.12.0-amd64-netinst.iso and choosing expert installer to install debian, the screen shown in attached picture is displayed during the installation. When 'backported software' is enabled, it leads to linux-sysctl-defaults package being automatically installed from backports, despite the text on the attached picture saying "Enabling backports here does not cause any of them to be installed by default". This behavior contrary to the text presented to the user on the screen, not expected by the user, and feels like a violation of debian policy because packages come from an unexpected place. It also changes the linux sysctl configuration, and thus differs from a regular bookworm system. I think this happens because linux-sysctl-defaults is priority important in bookworm-backports. I expect the same problem to hit trixie debian-installer when some package with priority important is uploaded to trixie-backports.
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