Re: Bug#1038789: Enable capabilities feature

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 17:20:35 +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Many thanks for this suggestion. I appreciate the advantages of
> capabilities support.

> Openrc also has optional capabilities support in supervise-daemon which might be
> an advantage to users, but isn't used by default in Debian.
> 
> It might be worth exploring adding capabilities support to src:dpkg
> start-stop-daemon. Maybe the src:openrc code would be a starting point. I
> haven't looked how much the two codebases have diverged.
> 
> Guillem,
> 
> What do you think?

Some time ago I asked on d-d whether anyone would have an issue with
dpkg.deb in Debian linking against libcap [D]. And where I had worked
on the following branch:

  https://git.hadrons.org/git/debian/dpkg/dpkg.git/log/?h=next/s-s-d-posix-caps

Which I need to go over again before merging. But otherwise support
for this in that or some other similar form should be coming soon to
s-s-d.

Thanks,
Guillem

[D] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/07/msg00045.html