From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:05:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: debian/i3status.postinst: Check if setcap is there, print info message if not (Thanks... 
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debian/i3status.postinst: Check if setcap is there, print info message if not (Thanks Sander)
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diff --git a/debian/i3status.postinst b/debian/i3status.postinst
index 26eccc4..6507da8 100644
--- a/debian/i3status.postinst
+++ b/debian/i3status.postinst
@@ -5,7 +5,13 @@ set -e
 # Allow users to get the speed of ethernet interfaces. This is not a security
 # issue as i3status only queries the speed, it does not change any
 # configuration.
-setcap cap_net_admin=ep /usr/bin/i3status || true
+if [ -x /sbin/setcap ]
+then
+	setcap cap_net_admin=ep /usr/bin/i3status || true
+else
+	echo "setcap(8) not installed. You need to set CAP_NET_ADMIN \
+to be able to query the network link bandwidth without root privileges."
+fi
 
 #DEBHELPER#