This is likely better done in Debian.
That said, dpkg-statoverride seems like a possible layer to extend. It
is responsible for updating the owner and permission of files installed
by packages, after all. Extending it to deal with capabilities, or for
that matter POSIX ACLs and Linux extended at
** Changed in: debhelper (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Description changed:
There are strong reasons to not run processes with full root privileges,
and much work has been done to eliminate setuid executables from the
distros.
One tool in the toolbox for more secure processes is capabilities(7),
- which was defined in the (now withdrawn)
** Package changed: dh-make (Ubuntu) => debhelper (Ubuntu)
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