FAQforge posted a tutorial about building a pure-ftpd Debian package for OpenVZ virtual machines

The pure-ftpd package that comes with Debian 5.0 (Lenny) does not start in a OpenVZ virtual machine as it is compiled with “capabilities”. This tutorial describes the steps to build a pure-ftpd Debian package with capabilities disabled

  How to build a pure-ftpd Debian package for OpenVZ virtual machines (without capabilities enabled)