please have apparmor-notify Recommends libnotify-bin instead of Depends

[Jamie Strandboge]

aa-notify works just fine without libnotify-bin in server environments. Eg, I remove libnotify-bin and libnotify4 (using --force-depends) on a precise system and then do:

$ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -n -s 0 -w /foo
tcpdump: /foo: Permission denied
$ sudo aa-notify -s 1 -v
Profile: /usr/sbin/tcpdump
Operation: mknod
Name: /foo
Denied: c
Logfile: /var/log/kern.log

AppArmor denial: 1 (since Wed Oct 3 15:45:04 2012)
For more information, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingApparmor

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apparmor - 2.8.0-0ubuntu5

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apparmor (2.8.0-0ubuntu5) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Micah Gersten ]
  * Allow /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg r and /var/lib/xine/gxine.desktop r
    in the multimedia browser abstraction (LP: #1057642)
    - update profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/multimedia

  [ Steve Beattie ]
  * debian/control: make libnotify-bin a Recommends rather than a
    Depends for use in server environments (LP: #1061879)
  * debian/patches/0020-coredump_tests.patch: fix coredump regression
    tests (LP: #1050430)
  * debian/patches/0021-webapps_abstraction.patch: add a few items
    triggered by using and installing webapps in firefox (LP: #1056418)
  * debian/patches/0022-aa-decode-stdin.patch: fix aa-decode to process
    stdin correctly and decode encoded profiles names
 -- Steve Beattie <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:44:56 -0700

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

I'm reopening this after discussing it with Daviey;. he felt the dependency on libnotify-bin should be a Suggests: and that for desktop environments we assume that libnotify-bin will already be installed.

Poking at the rdepends for libnotify-bin, it's already a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, and mythtv-frontend. It seems kubuntu-desktop is the only location where this assumption might be a problem, but I don't know for sure whether libnotify works in that desktop environment anyway.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

To followup, the reason to make it a suggests would be so that the apparmor-notify could be installed on servers without pulling in a bunch of X libraries, even if recommends is enabled (which it is by default even on ubuntu-server).

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Too late for Quantal, let's do this in R.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

So, the hard dependency is fixed for 12.10 so I am going to mark it as 'Fix Released'. I am going to open a raring and precise task with the understanding that we should use 'Suggests' instead.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apparmor - 2.8.0-0ubuntu9

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apparmor (2.8.0-0ubuntu9) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/control: make libnotify-bin a Suggests rather than a Recommends
    since it is assumed to already be installed on the desktop and so server
    environments don't have to pull in a lot of X dependencies (LP: #1061879)

apparmor (2.8.0-0ubuntu8) raring; urgency=low

  [ Steve Beattie ]
  * 0024-lp1091642-parser-reset_matchflags.patch: prevent reuse of
    matchflags in parser dfa backend and add testcase demonstrating the
    problem (LP: #1091642)

  [ Jamie Strandboge ]
  * debian/debhelper/postinst-apparmor: quote all occurences of #PROFILE#.
 -- Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:47:50 -0600

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release