Hi,
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> The other way would be if the archive priority was changed between
> different installs.
This has happened in april 2016 (maybe related to bug 780721 ?)
"d/control: Increase Priority of libcap2{,-bin} to important"
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libcap2/commit/a3f0fbccfa946b6895da1b3521849d04ccf8da0f
and again four months ago
"d/control: Drop Priority of libcap2"
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libcap2/commit/5386335db24bfff5cc85bda69dbcda6ab2d7d20d
(The latter is not yet in the released package's control file.)
So one maintainer already adapted to the new policy rules.
But
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/iputils/raw/master/debian/control
still has the hunchbacked gesture of recommending an actually necessary
dependency:
Package: iputils-ping
...
Recommends: libcap2-bin
...
Package: iputils-arping
...
Recommends: libcap2-bin
(I understand that this suffices if your local package management is set
to automatically install recommendations.
I also understand that there is a coarse workaround if libcap2 is missing.)
So bug 780721 is still valid and could now be fixed.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
