Comment 4 for bug 1513880

Well, 2.10 officially has support for python 2 - it's just a bug that went in unnoticed. We noticed this a while after the release when a newly added test brought it up, but you are the first who actually hit that bug in the wild ;-)

If you are interested in technical details:
type(u'foo') is 'unicode' in py2, but 'str' in py3 - so we'll need to allow both. To make things more interesting, the type 'unicode' no longer exists in py3, so we also need to check for sys.version_info[0] before we can check for type 'unicode' :-/
Since we do this check at varios places in apparmor.rule.*, this will probably become a is_string() helper function.

You are also the first with a distribution that does not (officially) contain python 3, which sounds like a good reason to fix this bug and keep python 2 support for a while. We'll discuss this in the next IRC meeting (Nov 17, see http://wiki.apparmor.net/index.php/MeetingAgenda) - feel free to join that meeting.

For contributing small changes, IMHO the easiest way is to do a bzr checkout, do the changes there and send the "bzr diff" output to the mailinglist (or to the bugtracker, if you prefer that way). bzr also supports branches and merge requests.