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 <[email protected]> [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.
