[pkg-apparmor] Bug#920682: Ships file in /var/cache

[intrigeri]

Hi Josh & Marco,

Josh Triplett:
> apparmor ships /var/cache/apparmor/CACHEDIR.TAG directly in the binary
> package. Packages must not ship files or directories in /var/cache; the
> system administrator is free to delete such files or directories at any
> time.

Just curious (since I agree with your conclusions): where does
"Packages must not ship files or directories in /var/cache" come from?

> In this case, it's the responsibility of the sysadmin to not back up
> /var/cache; it's not apparmor's responsibility to ship a CACHEDIR.TAG
> file in its particular subdirectory. (There ought to be one in
> /var/cache directly, but that's not apparmor's problem to solve.)

This makes sense to me.

The initial request by Marco about CACHEDIR.TAG was "please ship
a CACHEDIR.TAG file in the apparmor package if the cache directory
cannot be moved out of /etc/" (#883584). Now that we've moved the
cache to /var/cache, I agree we can stop shipping CACHEDIR.TAG in the
apparmor package.

Marco, do you have anything to add on this topic before I go ahead?

Cheers,
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intrigeri