Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)
On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:11:44AM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> There is a bug related to this imbroglio:
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780721
>> (libcap2-bin is recommended but is not a dependancy of iputils-ping,
>> because "iputils-ping, as priority 'important', cannot declare a
>> dependency on libcap2-bin, which is priority 'optional'").
>
> But libcap2-bin is priority important in both stretch and buster.
>
>
Why is my Stretch apt-cache command telling me it's priority optional?
Or am I once again missing some essential thing?
curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show libcap2-bin
Package: libcap2-bin
Source: libcap2
Version: 1:2.25-1
Installed-Size: 85
Maintainer: Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libcap-bin
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10)
Recommends: libpam-cap
Breaks: libcap-bin
Description-en: POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (utilities)
Libcap implements the user-space interfaces to the POSIX 1003.1e capabilities
available in Linux kernels. These capabilities are a partitioning of the all
powerful root privilege into a set of distinct privileges.
.
This package contains additional utilities.
Description-md5: f223f06c6e812dc45d4b21cbd8163d36
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/
Tag: admin::configuring, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libc/libcap2/libcap2-bin_2.25-1_amd64.deb
Size: 26490
MD5sum: cf46bb9dd77bd949226b90f735d52f33
SHA256: 8b6a70886d13a53e35bfacebab1bc869a09f405783f734835f313460e80be94e
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