Re: libcap2?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 16/08/11 14:55, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 14:24 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> grep-aptavail -FBuild-Depends -sPackage,Build-Depends  -n "libcap"
>> mySources | paste -sd "  \n" | sed -e 's/^\([^ ]*\) .*, \(libcap[^,]*
>> \).*$/\1: \2/' | grep -v hurd-i386 | grep -v linux-any | grep -v not
>> +linux-gnu | grep -v libcapi
> 
> What to replace mySources with in the above?
> 
> Even if the build dependencies are linux-any (or equivalent) it looks
> like the binary packages still depends on lbacap2. Examples:
> wodim: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcap2 (>= 2.10)
> syslog-ng: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libcap2 (>= 2.10), ...

On linux-any, where the libcap build dependency was available, libcap support
was enabled and the binary packages depend on it. On !linux-any, libcap won't be
installed, libcap support won't be enabled and so the binary packages won't
depend on libcap2.

Emilio