bug#26391: [PATCH 0/1] Patching getcap and which in torsocks

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Eric,

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> This patches references to the 'getcap' and 'which' programs in 'torsocks'
> so that users that don't have either of those packages installed in their
> profiles do not see confusing output about them missing.  Usually torsocks
> will still function in that case, but it's probably better to have them
> available.
>
> I've so far done this sort of thing for several packages with shell scripts,
> and each time I'm convinced that this method is better than declaring the
> inputs in propagated-inputs.  But I think I'd feel more sure of myself if we
> had a short "Packaging shell scripts" section in the manual that outlined
> best-practices-of-the-moment.  Would that be useful?

Yes, sure.

> * gnu/packages/tor.scm (torsocks)[inputs,arguments]: New fields.

LGTM, thanks!

Ludo’.