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If you base your Docker images on a full distribution then that is entirely your fault. People usually use specialized distributions for that.
You could even bootstrap your needed tooling from Busybox.
Specialized distributions like minideb still use the Debian packages, they just use fewer by default.
Debian or Ubuntu are usually the best choice if you depend on glibc. Alpine is definitely more compact but musl isn’t always an option.