I advise against backporting apparmor and suggest you simply adjust debian/rules to filter out the offending rules or to ship a different profile.
** Changed in: apparmor (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apparmor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307436 Title: cloudarchive-icehouse: virt-aa-helper: error: apparmor_parser exited with error Status in “apparmor” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “libvirt” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: With Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Cloudarchive Icehouse libvirt 1.2.2-0ubuntu11~cloud0 is not able to spawn a VM instance due to incompatible apparmor profile with apparmor 2.7.102-0ubuntu3.9 (precise's version): 2014-04-11 10:27:10.997+0000: 8616: error : virCommandWait:2399 : internal error: Child process (/usr/lib/libvirt/virt-aa-helper -p 0 -c -u libvirt-d18f1dff-e275-4fcc-b712-2caf530aed74) unexpected exit status 1: virt-aa-helper: error: apparmor_parser exited with error Also starting apparmor with 1.2.2-0ubuntu11~cloud0 results in a apparmor_parser error: root@compute1:~# /etc/init.d/apparmor start * Starting AppArmor profiles AppArmor parser error for /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd at line 37: syntax error, unexpected TOK_CONDID, expecting TOK_MODE When OpenStack/Nova/libvirt tries to spawn an instance it fails due to following apparmor_parser issue: /etc/apparmor.d/libvirt/libvirt-3138433d-a124-40dd-9630-68a9e227b0bd in /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/libvirt-qemu at line 143: syntax error, unexpected TOK_OPENPAREN, expecting TOK_MODE New offending profile entries for apparmor 2.7.102-0ubuntu3.9 seems to be: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd: dbus bus=system, signal, ptrace, /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/libvirt-qemu: signal (receive) peer=/usr/sbin/libvirtd, ptrace (tracedby) peer=/usr/sbin/libvirtd, Reverting those entries allows again to spawn a VM instance with OpenStack Icehouse RC2 from Cloudarchive-Ichouse on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/1307436/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp