#560260 lack of any documentation for utilities

Package:
libcap2-bin
Source:
libcap2
Description:
POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (utilities)
Submitter:
Joey Hess
Date:
2025-06-17 19:43:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#560260#5
Date:
2009-12-10 00:13:13 UTC
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There are no man pages.

This behavior also threw me for a loop.

root@gnu:/home/joey/tmp>getpcaps --help
Capabilities for `--help': =ep

I eventually figured out that it prints a usage message if
run without any parameters. I still don't know what "=ep" means.
#560260#10
Date:
2015-03-16 18:20:03 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 libcap2-bin

Is this still relevant for libcap2-bin?


Andreas
#560260#17
Date:
2015-03-16 18:20:03 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 libcap2-bin

Is this still relevant for libcap2-bin?


Andreas
#560260#22
Date:
2022-08-24 18:49:31 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

The setcap(8) manpage references cap_from_text(3), which does not exist
on my system.
#560260#27
Date:
2025-05-21 05:54:04 UTC
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+1. Would be nice to improve documentation on this. I believe the correct man
page would be capabilities(7).
#560260#32
Date:
2025-06-17 19:17:27 UTC
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Version: 1:2.25-2

Sorry, this report got lost in my inbox.

cap_from_text(3), as documentation for development using libcap, is
shipped in package libcap-dev, not libcap2-bin.

This has been the case for a long time, so I'm closing the bug with the
version from oldoldstable.

Best,
Christian