Bug#1029831: debian-policy: Make required packages build-essential

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 02:38:55PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 09:56:58AM +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> > * Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> [2023-01-29 14:01]:
> > > The set of preinstalled packages in build environments is decided by
> > > the debootstrap implementation, so yes, the debootstrap behavior is
> > > current practice.
> > 
> > Note that debootstrap changed and now only installs essential,
> > build-essential and apt in the buildd variant for trixie and later (see
> > #837060). [...]
> 
> Indeed, such fact by itself makes this policy proposal to be obsolete.
> 
> We have finally fixed debootstrap to match policy (regarding required packages).

Note: Not really, based on the examples given by Jochen.

What I meant here is that given that debootstrap changed the algorithm
to not install many required packages "just because they are required",
we are now a lot closer to have policy and debootstrap in sync,
without having to make required packages build-essential.

Thanks.