[pkg-apparmor] Bug#968607: Bug#968607: pidgin-openpgp: AppArmor profil prevents execution of XEP-0027.pl

[Seth Arnold]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 06:27:08PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> Given pidgin-openpgp was removed from testing and sid,
> IMO it's not worth adding support for it in the AppArmor profile,
> so let's instead ensure the obsolete pidgin-openpgp package
> gets removed if apparmor-profiles-extra is installed:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/apparmor-team/apparmor-profiles-extra/-/commit/eedb248ece01e65ce5572f5cc0b1a59c1bfc8f06

Hello intrigeri, I'm not comfortable with this approach.

apparmor-profiles-extra is just text files.

I don't know what merits or demerits pidgin-openpgp actually has, but if
an administrator installed it and hasn't purged it themselves when it was
removed from the repos, they may actually use it.

There's no compelling technical reason why both packages can't exist at
once on one system. A site admin could easily add necessary lines to
/etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.pidgin to fix this without incurring
the wrath of dpkg's configuration file handling.

I'd rather this bug be closed wontfix with "since pidgin-openpgp was
removed from Debian we don't see a pressing need to fix the profiles" and
take no other action.

Thanks
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