>>>>> On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:36:41 -0500, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> >>>>> said:
> Currently, the sample configuration namespace has a shell script to > restore the common capabilities found in base files; see > scripts/DEBIAN/20-capabilities. In this script, I'm doing the same things that are done in the postinst script of the package. Also there was a bug in tar which added some xattr or capabilities even no were defined when creating the tar file. Have a look at #819978. IIRC this was one reason to no use xattrs with tar by default. -- regards Thomas