Bug#839618: don't say Setcap worked! gst-ptp-helper is not suid!

Adam Borowski kilobyte at angband.pl
Mon Oct 3 01:11:27 UTC 2016


> We see:
> Setting up libgstreamer1.0-0:i386 (1.9.90-1) ...
> Setcap worked! gst-ptp-helper is not suid!
>
> Shouldn't you emit a message only if there is a problem.
>
> Otherwise the systemadmin has to take a look at it... so only mention errors.

I'd say this message should be kept, possibly reworded.

While setcap is overall a good thing, it can be surprising to sysadmins, as
it can be broken by a number of actions that worked until now, such as rsync
without -X.

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