[pkg-apparmor] Bug#773357: Update mySQL profiles in Jessie
u
u at 451f.org
Fri Dec 19 15:54:40 UTC 2014
Hi,
> [moving the discussion to the ML, dropping the bug report from the Cc
> list since I doubt MySQL maintainers care about what usertags we use,
> and I'm only replying to this part below.]
perfect.
> [also, very sorry for the terseness of my previous email -- I wrote it
> when stealing a few seconds here and there while my attention was busy
> with other things, and should have proof-read it before sending.]
no worries.
> u wrote (17 Dec 2014 19:38:12 GMT) :
>> Concerning the usertag, I think this could be "aa-update-profile", what
>> do you think?
>
> "aa" feels redundant: a usertag is only meaningful for a specific
> user, and in this case it'll be pkg-apparmor-team at .
ack.
> I'm not sure about the "update-profile" part: it suggests that we only
> need to merge changes from upstream into Debian/Ubuntu, while
> I suspect there are changes that need to be merged in the opposite
> direction as well. Maybe "merge-with-upstream", or anything that
> conveys this (probable) fact too?
sounds good.
> Now, I realize that this topic is somewhat related to the
> discussion(s) about cross-distro cooperation (that I've failed to
> follow-up to, sorry): it would be good to share a taxonomy and
> nomenclature for this kind of things. This would help automating
> things, and maybe, some day, creating a dashboard that shows what
> distros are doing with profiles, and what needs to be done so that
> they converge more rapidly.
>
> Maybe Ubuntu or openSUSE folks already have a nomenclature for tagging
> such things in their own distro bug tracker, whenever they ship
> a profile that diverges from upstream?
>
I've talked to Christian Boltz on IRC and he said that openSUSE did not
use any such tags either, but simply the "component" AppArmor on their
bugtracker.
Cheers
u.
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