[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#492622: Bug#492622: gnupg: package is not built with --with-capabilities

Thijs Kinkhorst thijs at debian.org
Mon Jul 28 16:44:58 UTC 2008


On Sunday 27 July 2008 21:17, Torsten Werner wrote:
> configure is not called with --with-capabilities. That means the
> Build-Depends: libcap-dev is useless. I recommend switching to
> libcap2-dev in case you want to enable capabilities because libcap-dev
> is no longer maintained upstream.

Well, we haven't built with capabilities since 1.2.5 and as we don't setuid 
root anymore, it's not useful to add the switch (and even furthermore, 
upstream advises against using capabilities).

The build-dep has been removed in the upcoming version.


cheers,
Thijs
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