Hi Dave, Dave Turner writes:
> On 27/11/17 21:58, Rowland Penny wrote: >> Hi, a guy has just asked a question on the samba mailing list about >> apparmor and Samba, it seems that last week, apparmor became a >> dependency for the kernel on Buster, because of systemd. >> >> Can I take it this dependency will be removed in Beowulf ? > > What debian gets up to on 'testing' = Buster and 'unstable' = sid can be > interesting at times. > > If that dependency on apparmor is now in Buster I would expect it to be > in sid having proved itself as a 'good thing'. Not necessarily. Moving from unstable to testing merely means that nobody using unstable was annoyed enough by any breakage to file a sufficiently severe bug report against the package within the grace period (ten days for packages with urgency=low, IIRC). > Having just checked my sid install there are no signs of apparmor being > a dependency for the kernel or for Samba. As Adam mentioned, its a Recommends: of the kernel but you may be left with a non-booting machine unless you pass an `apparmor=0` to the kernel at boot time. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
