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

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:27:09PM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> 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?

At the moment, general tribal knowledge that hasn't yet been written
down somewhere. I've submitted a debian-policy patch to document it.

- Josh Triplett