Hi Timo, [...] > I would appreciate if you could consider adding this patch to the suricata > package in the current stable release (buster) as the inabilitiy to drop root > privileges may have severe security implications and the patch itself is > trivial.
Thanks for taking the time to think of stable! I have filed a bug report with the release team in regard to that [1]. Cheers Sascha [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=954716
