Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 01:00:19PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> > 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?

Uh...

arc3:~$ dpkg -s libcap2-bin | grep -i priority
Priority: important
arc3:~$ apt-cache show libcap2-bin | grep -i priority
Priority: optional

OK, I have no freaking idea what this means.