[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Pushing Ubuntu's AppArmor-related delta into the Debian libvirt package?

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Stefan Bader (stefan.bader at canonical.com):
> On 20.09.2014 01:58, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Stefan Bader (stefan.bader at canonical.com):
> >> On 15.09.2014 06:24, intrigeri wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Stefan Bader wrote (30 Jul 2014 06:44:08 GMT) :
> >>>> On 30.07.2014 01:16, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >>>>> I'm certainly open to that.  Stefan, it sounded like you were interested in
> >>>>> looking at actually pushing some of the delta back?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We could sit down sometime and walk through a debdiff, break it into
> >>>>> chunks.
> >>>
> >>>> Sure, and as I have not done the correct way, yet. I would like to take that
> >>>> opportunity to learn how to proceed correctly. Mainly when I had some pieces in
> >>>> the past I directly sent email to the Debian maintainer of the package. That
> >>>> works but probably is not the "right" way.
> >>>
> >>> Has there been any progress?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >> I don't know really (just returning from 2 weeks of work abstinence). Before
> >> that things got pushed by a mix of "other things" and an inconvenient timezone
> >> offset between me and Serge. I remember he intended to work on it on a Thursday
> >> once and I was asking whether we could do it on the Friday instead. Sadly since
> >> then several Fridays have passed...
> > 
> > Sorry for the delay in responding.  I wanted to get 1.2.8 into Ubuntu as some
> > of the apparmor delta was being reduced there anyway.
> > 
> > Stefan is going to (or did?) be sending the remaining policy delta to the mailing
> > list soon, after which we should be able to basically drop the debian/apparmor
> > directory in Ubuntu.
> > 
> > That should basically fix the apparmor delta between debian and ubuntu.  Then
> > we can start looking at other packaging :)
> > 
> > -serge
> > 
> I have not, yet, sent anything. There seemed to be one addition to our profile
> which I wanted to include as well. The other problem which I want to resolve
> first is verifying the automake things work as intended and for that I need to
> get a chroot working to compile the git version of libvirt. Unfortunately the
> bootstrap code not necessarily works on Ubuntu.

Hi Stefan,

didn't mean to derail you with that.  I'd suggest just sending the delta minus
the local apparmor bit, then we can address that separately.