modify dependencies to allow installing the apparmor package on ubuntuBSD

[Jon Boden]

Hi

Please could you make this change to allow installing apparmor on ubuntuBSD? (initramfs-tools is only installable on Linux)

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[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Can you describe what problems this patch solves?

AppArmor currently requires a Linux kernel; while there's been speculation that it would be possible to port the AppArmor framework to a BSD or Illumos kernel no one has actually done the work yet.

Thanks

[Jon Boden (jon-8)]

Hi Seth

I'm confused then. Why is the Architecture field in debian/control set to any?

And why debian/patches/non-linux.patch, debian/non-linux/apparmor_parser?

[intrigeri (intrigeri)]

> I'm confused then. Why is the Architecture field in debian/control set to any?

> And why debian/patches/non-linux.patch, debian/non- linux/apparmor_parser?

I find it marginally useful to build on Debian/kFreeBSD: this can sometimes help discover real bugs that affect Linux but would not be immediately visible there. But if this ever becomes too tedious, I won't bother and will drop the non-Linux targets.

[Jon Boden (jon-8)]

Well then could you apply the patch to make apparmor installable? If it's built on bsd architectures, then other packages use it in Build-Depends. It helps if it's installable then :-)

[intrigeri (intrigeri)]

> Well then could you apply the patch to make apparmor installable?

The dependency on any kind of initramfs-tools has been dropped in Debian a while ago (2.9.0-3+exp1), because AFAIK it was needed only for the early modules loading code, that was removed a while ago. For some undocumented reason, last time Ubuntu merged Debian's packaging (2.10-3ubuntu1), these deps were kept in Ubuntu, so I'm afraid there's nothing I can personally do about it. Sorry!

[Jon Boden (jon-8)]

I think there's some confusion. I'm only asking to mark it [linux-any] so that ubuntuBSD can install the package. This change has no effect on Linux!

-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, libapparmor-perl, lsb-base, debconf, initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool [linux-any]
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, libapparmor-perl, lsb-base, debconf, initramfs-tools [linux-any] | linux-initramfs-tool [linux-any]