Hi Seth, Seth Arnold (2020-10-29): > Hello intrigeri, I'm not comfortable with this approach.
Thanks for sharing. I hear you and it matters to me. > apparmor-profiles-extra is just text files. > > I don't know what merits or demerits pidgin-openpgp actually has, but if > an administrator installed it and hasn't purged it themselves when it was > removed from the repos, they may actually use it. > > There's no compelling technical reason why both packages can't exist at > once on one system. A site admin could easily add necessary lines to > /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.pidgin to fix this without incurring > the wrath of dpkg's configuration file handling. > > I'd rather this bug be closed wontfix with "since pidgin-openpgp was > removed from Debian we don't see a pressing need to fix the profiles" and > take no other action. Works for me. I've just uploaded 1.29 that drops the problematic Conflicts :) I believe that in practice, during a Buster → Bullseye upgrade, pidgin-openpgp will be removed anyway because libgtk2-perl will get removed. So in this context, having this Conflicts or not does not matter much. (I understand Ubuntu adopted a different strategy wrt. deprecating libgtk2-perl so things would look different there.) Cheers!