Package: tor Version: 0.3.1.8-2~d80.jessie+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The tor package for Debian is compiled without capability support, which prevents KeepBindCapabilities from working. KeepBindCapabilities instructs Tor to keep CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, so that it can re-bind to low ports after hibernation or changing the config file. This feature was discussed in #700179 and ultimately implemented, but the Debian package must be built with libcap for it to work. Setting KeepBindCapabilities to 1 with the current Debian package causes this message at startup: [warn] KeepBindCapabilities set, but no capability support on this system. To fix this, the package needs to be built with libcap-dev installed on the build machine. I'm not sure how this is accomplished; perhaps it needs to be added to Build-Depends. This seems to affect the package in both the Debian repositories and the official Tor Project repository at http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.9 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.36-x86_64-linode85 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Configuration Files: /etc/tor/torrc changed [not included] -- no debconf information
