[pkg-aa-profiles-team] Advance inquiry: apparmor-profiles-extra package

[Paul R. Tagliamonte]

Seems fine to me :)

Cheers,
  Paul

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:24 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi ftpmasters,
>
> intrigeri wrote (22 Apr 2014 09:15:11 GMT) :
>> [Re-sending to ftpmaster at debian.org, since the email I sent to
>> ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org on April 14 could not be delivered.]
>
> I'm wondering if my initial email (sent on March 26) made it to you,
> or if you only got a meaningless "ping?" without content. So here it
> is again:
>
> in the last few years, I have been working on improving AppArmor
> support in Debian. Wheezy supports it, but ships very little
> confinement profiles. My current focus is to add more such profiles
> for Jessie, and to make it easy for users to opt-in for it.
>
> My strategy is:
>
>   * to get the profiles included in the corresponding package when the
>     maintainer feels like it (which is often equivalent to: either the
>     profile is shipped in the upstream tarball, or the Debian
>     maintainers work closely with the Ubuntu ones); this has worked
>     for a few packages already:
>     https://wiki.debian.org/AppArmor/Progress#Included_in_the_corresponding_package
>
>   * and else, to bundle profiles in a new package, called
>     apparmor-profiles-extra.
>
> This approach was suggested to me by Stefano Zacchiroli, and my
> rationale was explained in more details there:
>
>   https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2014/01/msg00008.html
>
> I'm getting close to the point when I'll want to do a first upload of
> the apparmor-profiles-extra package. This initial version will "only"
> ship 3 profiles, but I plan to make it grow during the Jessie release
> cycle and later. Hopefully, at some point this effort towards better
> AppArmor support will get more traction, AppArmor expertise will be
> better spread in our community, maintainers will more actively include
> profiles into their own packages, and this profiles bundle package
> will be obsolete. We're not there yet, though.
>
> I'm aware the ftpmaster team is historically somewhat reluctant to
> packages that ship a small number of files, especially when these
> files qualify as configuration, hence this advance request: would you
> object to seeing such an apparmor-profiles-extra package in the
> Debian archive?
>
> If it may be useful, the draft source package lives in the
> collab-maint/apparmor-profiles-extra.git repository on Alioth.
>
> Thanks for your attention and for all the great work you're doing!
>
> Cheers,
> --
>   intrigeri
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