[pkg-apparmor] Bug#972881: Bug#972881: Consider making apparmor-utils, python3-apparmor, and libapparmor-perl arch:all

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Christian Boltz (2021-09-08):
> To confirm that you are right:
> /var/log/wtmp has a different binary format on some architectures (I'm 
> aware of aarch64 and s390x), which means we'll need to somehow make   
> aa-notify -l   ("events since last login") somehow arch-specific.
>
> I'm not yet sure how to solve that in a sane way, but in worst case that 
> little detail could make aa-notify arch-specific. (Currently aa-notify 
> does its own parsing of /var/log/wtmp, so either we adjust that 
> depending on the architecture, or we use a python module that is made 
> for reading /var/log/wtmp and gives us a sane result everywhere.)

Interesting, indeed!

In Debian, apparmor-notify is already arch:all, so this sub-thread is
out of the scope of this bug report, and shall not block the change
I proposed here. Nevertheless, let's try to reach a conclusion:

Given aa-notify is a Python program, I understand a fix for the
aforementioned problem will be about running different arch-specific
code at runtime, rather than building/installing different,
arch-specific aa-notify programs. Makes sense?

Cheers!