apparmor doesn't let telepathy-logger directory to be symlinked

[Stefanauss]

Experienced while running Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 LTS.

Version of Empathy (12.04 LTS): 3.4.1-0ubuntu1

For backup and multiboot reasons, i symlink /home/{user}/.local/share/TpLogger to /media/mainhome/{user}/.local/share/TpLogger in order to have a shared place for backing up conversation logs.
I use this approach for a number of applications, and It works perfectly fine across multiple linux distributions.

However when I try to do the some for Empathy, this doesn't work.

What is expected: I setup my Empathy accounts, then symlink the log directory. Empathy will read from/store logs to the symlinked location.

What happens: I setup my Empathy accounts, then symlink the log directory. Empathy reads existing logs from the symlinked location but is unable to store/create new logs.

From the dmesg output, I'm almost certain this is due to apparmor profiles. The output is attached, it show the relevant output of two different account (Facebook and GTalk) trying to write in the log directory.

I've been able to workaround the issue by adding the following lines to /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.telepathy under

    owner @{HOME}/.local/share/TpLogger/ rw,
    owner @{HOME}/.local/share/TpLogger/** rwk,

# MY ADDS

 owner /media/mainhome/[USER]/.local/share/TpLogger/ rw,
 owner /media/mainhome/[USER]/.local/share/TpLogger/** rwk,

Could this be done distro-wise?

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