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

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
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> > > 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.
[..]
> > 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.

We have a mechanism for installing iputils-ping into "most" systems, why
not use the same mechanism to install linux-sysctl-defaults?

Systems that want iputils-ping likely also want
linux-sysctl-defaults.

Chris