Bug#1110184: release-notes: document /etc/sysctl.conf being dropped

[Samuel Plavec <samuelplavec@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard Lewis wrote:
> > [...]
> > there is some important package that you now need to install to get the
> > symlink.
>
> That'll be linux-sysctl-defaults (Priority: important, with a
> Recommends from systemd).

I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but that package only
contains /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-default.conf,
not /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf.

> That is, we could advise users to run
>
>  apt list \!~i~important
>  apt list \!~i~pstandard

On my PC, after upgrading to trixie, /etc/sysctl.conf had been removed
(or, more precisely, it had been renamed to sysctl.conf.dpkg-bak).
None of the packages suggested by those commands appears that it could
have prevented that.
(Actually, isn't there a "p" before "important" missing in the first
command? It does not appear to work without it.)

Thanks.

Regards,
Samuel Plavec