On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 3:42 PM Debian Tester <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sure I did not enable the Thunderbird apparmor profile. Something did,
> so from my perspective, the only question left for me is, what did enable
> the Thunderbird apparmor profile on my boxes? If it was some install
> script of some package in the Debian archive, then there could be some
> pure Debian installations that do have the Thunderbird apparmor profile
> enabled by default. Also, I am not convinced, based on a seven year-old
> README file, that every pure Debian installation now, seven years later,
> will have the Thunderbird apparmor profile disabled by default.

I don't think there's anything in Debian that re-enabled the profile.
If your install is old enough, maybe it wasn't disabled when the
change in the default happened.

> I would suggest that, until the Thunderbird apparmor profile is fixed, that
> the next update to Thunderbird or apparmor check to see it it is enabled,
> and if it is, then it should be set to complain mode until the Thunderbird
> apparmor profile is fixed.

That was done once before. Someone would just need to update the
version number to do it again:
https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/thunderbird.postinst#L72-81

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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