[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#739699: Bug#739699: Set capabilities for systemd-detect-virt

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Michael Stapelberg 

> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:
> >> Sounds reasonable. I pushed
> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-systemd/systemd.git;a=commitdiff;h=73b71c7fc5102b9749e1fd2811c2c5540aee8d39
> >
> > Tollef, are you ok with having a hard dep on libcap2-bin in systemd?
> > I'm still a bit undecided myself.
> Consider the list of reverse dependencies, specifically
> iputils-ping (!):

Hmm, seems like it should have its priority raised, then.  It's optional
and iputils-ping is important.

> Therefore, I don’t think this is a big deal, even on servers and
> possibly embedded systems (presumably embedded folks rebuild the package
> anyway to strip documentation, for example).
> 
> If we want to avoid the dependency, we could Recommend libcap2-bin and
> conditionally run the code in postinst, though.

I'd rather not do this, since we should then also have a trigger that
fires when libcap2-bin is installed, which just begs for things to go
wrong.

I say we just depend on libcap2-bin (and possibly file a bug to get its
priority raised).

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