[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#683080: Bug#683080: Bug#683080: Bug#683080: bacula-fd: Please build with libcap-dev

[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:00:47 +0200, Elrond wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:52:31 +0400, Alexander Golovko wrote:
> [...]
>> Yes, but enabling this feature cause all bacula binaries and libraries
>> link with libcap2. So, i need some more investigation for add
>> capabilities support
>
> In a perfect world it would only add this dependency to
> bacula-fd.
> Possibly an upstream wishlist bug?

IMHO this is not a wishlist bug, we have plenty of such unneeded linking
in Bacula, see:

  <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646730#31>

> That said, libcap2 is on many systems anyway and probably
> wouldn't hurt on the director or a storage server a lot.

libcap2 is a dependency for ntp, not essential (standard), but still
IMHO highly recommended in a backup infrastructure (you want all your
machines to be synchronized WRT time).  And its Installed-Size: is only
55k on sid, so adding it *where it is needed* is not a problem.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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