Done:

• Updated the base image to Ubuntu 24.04
• Removed CPAN packages that had appropriate DEB packages available
• Added optional packages to enable all features of Bugzilla (sans database-specific packages)
• Optimized the CPAN build to clean up after itself to make the image lighter/smaller

Results:

• Working Bugzilla 5.2 base image on Ubuntu 24.04
• Reduction of image size by about 30% on both ARM64 and AMD64 (from ~1.6GB to ~1.1GB per docker image ls, ~1.1GB to ~765MB per dive)
• Reduction of open vulnerabilities in the image. Verified using docker scout and snyk container scanning.

Additional Info:

• bug#1915189