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

[intrigeri]

Hi Seth,

Seth Arnold (2020-10-29):
> Hello intrigeri, I'm not comfortable with this approach.

Thanks for sharing. I hear you and it matters to me.

> 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.

Works for me. I've just uploaded 1.29 that drops the problematic
Conflicts :)

I believe that in practice, during a Buster → Bullseye upgrade,
pidgin-openpgp will be removed anyway because libgtk2-perl will get
removed. So in this context, having this Conflicts or not does not
matter much. (I understand Ubuntu adopted a different strategy wrt.
deprecating libgtk2-perl so things would look different there.)

Cheers!