[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Glycin vs. AppArmor: fix available in sid

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

Am 01.06.26 um 16:36 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
>> To do so, ensure the app's profile has this line:
>>
>>      include if exists <abstractions/glycin>
> The issue is that, if you really mean the app and not the software
> that uses Glycin, LibreOffice does *not* use Glycin directly, and
> I suppose that it does not even know that Glycin will be used:
Exactly.
> here, Glycin is used via the GDK Pixbuf library (a.k.a. gdk-pixbuf).
> And perhaps gdk-pixbuf may no longer use Glycin in the future. So it
> would be strange if the libreoffice package had to add this line.

I would not be opposed to it though if it made the "issue" disappear. But it's indeed not ideal.


>
> So, how should the above line be added? Some kind of double
> inclusion (the app's profile → gdk-pixbuf → abstractions/glycin)?
> Or some automatic way for Glycin to add such a line to the profiles
> of the apps via some kind of mechanism?

Or it being in LibreOffices profile automatically makes it work even  though there's no usage except for using gdk-pixbuf?

No idea.


Regards,


Rene

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