Comment 18 for bug 1871148

All that said, Daniel and Jean-Baptiste, I installed 20.04 in a vm and tried to reproduce this and could not. The apparmor change was about correctness of the unit so I performed the upload, but I also hoped that it would address the issue you are seeing.

I'm not certain it will. On one boot, prior to upgrading apparmor, I saw:

$ sudo systemd-analyze critical-chain apparmor.service
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

apparmor.service +11.135s
└─local-fs.target @4.376s
  └─zfs-mount.service @4.327s +48ms
    └─var-lib-dpkg.mount @4.188s +137ms
      └─var-lib.mount @3.883s +250ms
        └─zfs-import.target @3.829s
          └─zfs-import-cache.service @3.125s +704ms
            └─zfs-load-module.service @3.121s +2ms
              └─systemd-udev-settle.service @1.183s +1.937s
                └─systemd-udev-trigger.service @933ms +248ms
                  └─systemd-udevd-kernel.socket @886ms
                    └─system.slice @535ms
                      └─-.slice @535ms

Note that var-lib.mount is already listed. On reboot though (without updating apparmor), I see:

$ sudo systemd-analyze critical-chain apparmor.service
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

apparmor.service +101ms
└─local-fs.target @2.812s
  └─run-user-122.mount @5.172s
    └─swap.target @1.823s
      └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f5ea22a0\x2de078\x2d4d8e\x2d9412\x2d1fad2171a080.swap @1.799s +22ms
        └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f5ea22a0\x2de078\x2d4d8e\x2d9412\x2d1fad2171a080.device @1.798s

Oddly, no zfs entries are listed apparently because local-fs.target isn't pulling them in:

$ sudo systemd-analyze critical-chain local-fs.target
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

local-fs.target @2.812s
└─run-user-122.mount @5.172s
  └─swap.target @1.823s
    └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f5ea22a0\x2de078\x2d4d8e\x2d9412\x2d1fad2171a080.swap @1.799s +22ms
      └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f5ea22a0\x2de078\x2d4d8e\x2d9412\x2d1fad2171a080.device @1.798s

Looking at var-lib.mount, I see zfs is in there:

$ sudo systemd-analyze critical-chain var-lib.mount
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

var-lib.mount +179ms
└─zfs-import.target @2.248s
  └─zfs-import-cache.service @1.845s +402ms
    └─zfs-load-module.service @1.840s +2ms
      └─systemd-udev-settle.service @692ms +1.143s
        └─systemd-udev-trigger.service @524ms +167ms
          └─systemd-udevd-kernel.socket @494ms
            └─system.slice @357ms
              └─-.slice @357ms

So why after a reboot did the dependencies change and drop the /var/lib entry from local-fs.target?

I then upgraded apparmor to have the RequiresMountsFor /var/lib/snapd/apparmor/profiles, rebooted and saw no difference:

$ sudo systemd-analyze critical-chain apparmor.service
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

apparmor.service +222ms
└─local-fs.target @2.562s
  └─run-user-122.mount @4.834s
    └─swap.target @1.687s
      └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f5ea22a0\x2de078\x2d4d8e\x2d9412\x2d1fad2171a080.swap @1.663s +24ms
        └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f5ea22a0\x2de078\x2d4d8e\x2d9412\x2d1fad2171a080.device @1.662s