On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:38:13PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Richard Lewis wrote: > > Basilikum, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On > >> bookworm there was a symlink /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf to > >> /etc/sysctl.conf. This symlink got dropped during the upgrade causing > >> the file to be ignored > > > > 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).
We mention this in the _iputils-sockets section. Maybe that section should be expanded? > > rather than focus on the details, should we instead suggest people consider > > installing everything of priority standard or higher, and review this list > > for changes before rebooting? > > That is, we could advise users to run > > apt list \!~i~important > apt list \!~i~pstandard > > or indeed > > apt list '!~i?or(~pstandard,~pimportant)' > > and ask themselves what their reasoning is for not having them. Something like that would probably be a good idea, yeah. Chris
