On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 10:11:38PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 02, Peter Pentchev <r...@ringlet.net> wrote: > > > I personally would prefer giving the administrator a way to change that. > > Maybe add a low priority debconf question with a "ping is not setuid" > > default, then mention that debconf setting in a comment in the file that > > the package installs in the sysctl.d/ directory. > Please don't. There are already way too many debconf questions and this > one would be totally pointless: anybody who cares to change the default > can just locally override the /usr/lib/sysctl.d/ file with a drop-in in > /etc/sysctl.d/ .
+1. I don't have any desire to add debconf to iputils-ping. I'd suggest the /etc/sysctl.d/ approach for admin overrides as well. noah
