[pkg-apparmor] Bug#1131868: apparmor: cups-pdf: pointless DENIED on /etc/paperspecs

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: apparmor
Version: 4.1.0-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine at iki.fi

2026-03-25T15:47:44,382358+02:00 audit: type=1400 audit(1774446465.848:215): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" class="file" profile="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" name="/etc/paperspecs" pid=344630 comm="gs" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0

CUPS-PDF needs to access the file to check paper sizes. Please stop denying access via AppArmor. Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.4
  APT prefers stable-security-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apparmor depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.91
ii  libc6                  2.41-12+deb13u2

apparmor recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apparmor suggests:
pn  apparmor-profiles-extra  <none>
pn  apparmor-utils           <none>

-- debconf information:
  apparmor/homedirs: