I'm not that familiar with bcachefs-tools and was speaking more generally but I thought bcachefs-tools wasn't critical for normal booting (On Ubuntu 24.04 nothi

I'm not that familiar with bcachefs-tools and was speaking more generally but I thought bcachefs-tools wasn't critical for normal booting (On Ubuntu 24.04 nothing seems to depend on that package and it seems optional. The same for btrfs-tools). Some other comments suggested you need it to mount a degraded file system but it seems to me that is a case where either 1. your system can't boot and you need external recovery boot tools anyway or 2. you can boot and can run whatever tools you want (you can install the latest version of bcachefs-tools via nixpkgs for example). The real problem there seems to be that the program was silently broken due to the changes made to get it to build on Debian. Though I agree that it is closer to a system-critical package than most packages.