[apparmor] [Merge] lp:~sdeziel/apparmor-profiles/usr.bin.thunderbird-profile into lp:apparmor-profiles
u
u at 451f.org
Thu Mar 24 13:44:51 UTC 2016
Hi,
any news on merging this one?
Simon Deziel:
> On 2016-01-14 08:46 AM, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
>> On 01/14/2016 05:27 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
>>> On 13/01/16 20:21, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
>>>> This comes from how Ubuntu (and I believe Debian) launch the binary.
>>>> /usr/bin/thunderbird is a symlink to /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh. We
>>>> didn't want to confine this file but instead /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.
>>>
>>> FWIW, Debian ships code remarkably similar to Thunderbird under the name
>>> Icedove, for the same trademark reasons as Firefox/Iceweasel.
>>> /usr/bin/icedove is a symlink to /usr/lib/icedove/icedove which seems to
>>> be the real executable.
>>>
>>>> The glob is there because iirc ppa builds and older releases might use something
>>>> different than /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.
>>>
>>> How much do you want to support those PPA builds and older releases,
>>> bearing in mind that if you meaningfully supported them, you'd probably
>>> already know how they're structured? :-)
>>>
>> I wasn't saying we should continue with the glob; I was trying to give
>> historical context. I vote for:
>>
>> profile thunderbird /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird { ... }
cheers!
u.
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