On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge <wool...@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 <c...@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 -- “Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.” – Thomas Pynchon