[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#849748: dbus is translating SE Linux contexts when it's not appropriate

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 23:55:58 +1100 Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> 
wrote:

Hi Russell,

 > Below is part of the SE Linux audit log on one of my test systems. These
 > entries have a MCS context of "s0" which is being translated to 
"SystemLow"
 > in a very similar way to translating a UID to a username. However the 
software
 > which processes the audit log expects to have a non-translated MCS 
context so
 > this causes problems.
 >
 > https://www.spinics.net/lists/selinux/msg21149.html
 >
 > This URL has the archive of a mailing list discussion about this 
topic. It
 > seems that changes to systemd or dbus could be used to resolve this.
 >
 > Fedora 24 doesn't have this problem but has a later version of dbus 
and an
 > earlier version of systemd (this problem is about the interaction between
 > dbus and systemd). If you have a repository with the development versions
 > of dbus packaged for test purposes then please let me know.
 >
 > Sorry this bug report isn't that good, I don't know a lot about dbus. 
But I
 > can get help from experts to answer any questions you have.

Could you please try again with the version of dbus/systemd currently in 
unstable?

I believe that systemd is now calling an other D-Bus method that is not 
doing the translation(GetConnectionCredentials())
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