On 2/14/2026 3:51 PM, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> 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.

This is the likely explanation, since both my testing and sid installations 
date back
to the days when Jessie was the stable version.

>
> > 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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