diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 66fd23b0..9dbed4f8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Added the `FileEntry.linkto` field that is a target of a symbolic link.
 - Function `Package::get_file_entries` returns an empty vector for an RPM package without any files.
 - `FileEntry` structs returned by (`Package::get_file_entries`) now include IMA signature information as well as digests for file entries.
+- Add mod `rpm::filecaps` instead of capctl crate
 
 ## 0.12.1
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 84311680..429754e8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ itertools = "0.12"
 hex = { version = "0.4", features = ["std"] }
 zstd = "0.13"
 xz2 = "0.1"
-capctl = "0.2.3"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 env_logger = "0.10.0"
diff --git a/src/errors.rs b/src/errors.rs
index 8c2abb4b..07f7820d 100644
--- a/src/errors.rs
+++ b/src/errors.rs
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ pub enum Error {
 
     #[error("timestamp conversion error: {0:?}")]
     TimestampConv(TimestampError),
+
+    #[error("{0}")]
+    InvalidFileCaps(String),
 }
 
 impl From<nom::Err<(&[u8], nom::error::ErrorKind)>> for Error {
diff --git a/src/rpm/filecaps.rs b/src/rpm/filecaps.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf2233c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rpm/filecaps.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+// ref. https://github.com/cptpcrd/capctl/blob/4b9ec47b48c6d6669c1d52f73831ad1633562a05/src/caps/cap_text.rs#L5
+use std::{fmt::Display, str::FromStr};
+
+use crate::Error;
+
+const CAPS: &[&str; 41] = &[
+    "CAP_CHOWN",
+    "CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE",
+    "CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH",
+    "CAP_FOWNER",
+    "CAP_FSETID",
+    "CAP_KILL",
+    "CAP_SETGID",
+    "CAP_SETUID",
+    "CAP_SETPCAP",
+    "CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE",
+    "CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE",
+    "CAP_NET_BROADCAST",
+    "CAP_NET_ADMIN",
+    "CAP_NET_RAW",
+    "CAP_IPC_LOCK",
+    "CAP_IPC_OWNER",
+    "CAP_SYS_MODULE",
+    "CAP_SYS_RAWIO",
+    "CAP_SYS_CHROOT",
+    "CAP_SYS_PTRACE",
+    "CAP_SYS_PACCT",
+    "CAP_SYS_ADMIN",
+    "CAP_SYS_BOOT",
+    "CAP_SYS_NICE",
+    "CAP_SYS_RESOURCE",
+    "CAP_SYS_TIME",
+    "CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG",
+    "CAP_MKNOD",
+    "CAP_LEASE",
+    "CAP_AUDIT_WRITE",
+    "CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL",
+    "CAP_SETFCAP",
+    "CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE",
+    "CAP_MAC_ADMIN",
+    "CAP_SYSLOG",
+    "CAP_WAKE_ALARM",
+    "CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND",
+    "CAP_AUDIT_READ",
+    "CAP_PERFMON",
+    "CAP_BPF",
+    "CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE",
+];
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct FileCaps(String);
+
+impl Display for FileCaps {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}", self.0)
+    }
+}
+
+impl FromStr for FileCaps {
+    type Err = Error;
+
+    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
+        validate_caps_text(s)?;
+
+        Ok(Self(s.to_owned()))
+    }
+}
+
+fn validate_capset(s: &str) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    if s.is_empty() || s.eq_ignore_ascii_case("all") {
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+
+    for part in s.split(',') {
+        if !CAPS.contains(&part.to_uppercase().as_str()) {
+            return Err(Error::InvalidFileCaps(format!("Unknown cap {}", &part)));
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn validate_suffix(s: &str) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let mut last_ch = None;
+    for ch in s.chars() {
+        match ch {
+            '=' | '+' | '-' => match last_ch {
+                // No "+/-/=" following each other
+                Some('=') | Some('+') | Some('-') => {
+                    return Err(Error::InvalidFileCaps(
+                        "No `+/-/=` following each other".to_owned(),
+                    ))
+                }
+                _ => (),
+            },
+
+            'p' | 'i' | 'e' => debug_assert!(last_ch.is_some()),
+
+            _ => {
+                return Err(Error::InvalidFileCaps(format!(
+                    "Invalid suffix char {}",
+                    ch
+                )))
+            }
+        }
+
+        last_ch = Some(ch);
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+pub fn validate_caps_text(s: &str) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let s = s.trim();
+    if s.is_empty() {
+        return Err(Error::InvalidFileCaps("Empty text".to_owned()));
+    }
+
+    for part in s.split_whitespace() {
+        let index = match part.find(|c| c == '+' || c == '-' || c == '=') {
+            Some(i) => i,
+            None => return Err(Error::InvalidFileCaps("`+/-/=` not found".to_owned())),
+        };
+
+        if index == 0 && !s.starts_with('=') {
+            // Example: "+eip" or "-eip"
+            return Err(Error::InvalidFileCaps(format!(
+                "Unexpected first char of `{}`",
+                &part
+            )));
+        }
+
+        validate_capset(&part[..index])?;
+        validate_suffix(&part[index..])?;
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::{validate_caps_text, validate_capset, validate_suffix};
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_validate_capset() {
+        validate_capset("").unwrap();
+        validate_capset("all").unwrap();
+        validate_capset("ALL").unwrap();
+        validate_capset("cap_chown").unwrap();
+        validate_capset("CAP_CHOWN").unwrap();
+        validate_capset("cap_chown,cap_syslog").unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_capset("cap_noexist").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Unknown cap cap_noexist"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_capset(",").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Unknown cap "
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_validate_suffix() {
+        validate_suffix("+p").unwrap();
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_validate_caps_text() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Empty text"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text(" ").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Empty text"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("cap_chown").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "`+/-/=` not found"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("+eip").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Unexpected first char of `+eip`"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("-eip").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Unexpected first char of `-eip`"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("cap_chown+-p").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "No `+/-/=` following each other"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("cap_chown=-p").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "No `+/-/=` following each other"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("cap_chown+y").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Invalid suffix char y"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            validate_caps_text("cap_noexist+p").unwrap_err().to_string(),
+            "Unknown cap cap_noexist"
+        );
+        validate_caps_text("cap_chown=p").unwrap();
+        validate_caps_text("cap_chown+p").unwrap();
+        validate_caps_text("cap_chown+ie").unwrap();
+        validate_caps_text("=e cap_chown-e").unwrap();
+        validate_caps_text("=e").unwrap();
+        validate_caps_text("all=e").unwrap();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/rpm/headers/types.rs b/src/rpm/headers/types.rs
index 7c20b870..e58b52b4 100644
--- a/src/rpm/headers/types.rs
+++ b/src/rpm/headers/types.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 //! A collection of types used in various header records.
-use crate::{constants::*, errors, Timestamp};
-use capctl::FileCaps;
+use crate::{constants::*, errors, FileCaps, Timestamp};
 use digest::Digest;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
diff --git a/src/rpm/mod.rs b/src/rpm/mod.rs
index a74c394a..ff4c4077 100644
--- a/src/rpm/mod.rs
+++ b/src/rpm/mod.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 mod builder;
 mod compressor;
+mod filecaps;
 mod headers;
 mod package;
 mod timestamp;
@@ -18,3 +19,5 @@ pub use timestamp::*;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "chrono")]
 pub use ::chrono;
+
+pub use filecaps::*;
diff --git a/src/tests.rs b/src/tests.rs
index 6da8b8f7..d37065d6 100644
--- a/src/tests.rs
+++ b/src/tests.rs
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ However, it does nothing.",
         if f.path.as_os_str() == "/etc/awesome/second.toml" {
             assert_eq!(
                 f.clone().caps.unwrap(),
-                "cap_sys_ptrace,cap_sys_admin=ep".to_string()
+                "cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace=pe".to_string()
             );
             assert_eq!(f.ownership.user, "hugo".to_string());
         } else if f.path.as_os_str() == "/etc/awesome/config.toml" {