Dear Robie, thanks for the quick and positive answer.
Am 12.11.16 um 08:57 schrieb Robie Basak: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:48:22PM +0100, Bjoern Kahl wrote: >> I suppose this to be a packaging bug, but if it is instead intended >> behaviour, then I'd like to learn why mysql-server has a hard >> dependency on apparmor (and only apparmor, of all the various Linux >> Security Modules out there). > This is my mistake. Sorry. On upgrade from Trusty to Xenial, it was > necesssary to ensure that AppArmor was upgraded first (otherwise the > release upgrade would fail). I should have used a Breaks clause in the > packaging to ensure this, but for some reason it didn't occur to me at > the time to do this, so I ended up doing it with a Depends instead, on > the basis that apparmor is installed by default on Ubuntu anyway. > I'm not sure to what > extent we support SELinux on Ubuntu, but it certainly wasn't my > intention to prevent users from using it unnecessarily. Regarding general support for SELinux in Ubuntu, I would call it "mediocre" at best. Currently I am too busy with other things, but if there is interest, I might spend some time early next year on brushing it up. (I have a bunch of patches in my private repository, but they need more work.) > We can fix this in the next stable update if you like. Please file a > bug. I filed the following bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1641285 Best regards Björn -- | Bjoern Kahl +++ Siegburg +++ Germany | | "mls@-my-domain-" +++ www.bjoern-kahl.de | | Languages: German, English, Ancient Latin (a bit :-)) | -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
