@Georgia, thanks for the work! Is anyone from the security team going to
sponsor the apparmor updates for you?

Also in the evince debdiff, you added apparmor to the Build-Depends but
is that needed? If the intend is to ensure a recent enough apparmor is
available on the sytem then the Depends should be enough?

Also evince didn't depends on apparmor before, it's probably fine to
change that but I still want to raise the question. What would be the
outcome of installing the new evince with an old apparmor? would the
missing rules just be ignored or would they create issues?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1794064

Title:
  Clicking a hyperlink in a PDF fails to open it if the default browser
  is a snap

Status in apparmor package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in evince package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Users cannot open a hyperlink in a PDF opened with evince when the default 
browser is a snap.
   * The fix creates a snap_browsers abstraction on AppArmor which can be used 
in a transition for when the browser is executed. The snap_browsers abstraction 
provides the minimal amount of permissions required to execute a browser 
provided through snaps. This is a workaround since AppArmor currently does not 
provide mediation/filtering on enhanced environment variables.

  [Test Plan]

   * Make sure the default browser is provided through the snap store.
   * Open a PDF that contains a hyperlink using evince and click on the URL.
   * The browser should open the requested URL. 

  [Where problems could occur]

   * If the browser or snap core update to have new requirements for
  opening a browser, then the current policy could become obsolete and
  will need to be updated again.

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