[Bug 1512501] Re: [SRU] [HWE] Backport efivar 0.21 to 15.04

[Steve Langasek]

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted efivar into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/efivar/0.21-1~15.04.1
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  [SRU] [HWE] Backport efivar 0.21 to 15.04

Status in efivar package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Shipping fwupdate in 15.04 (hardware enablement tool; a firmware updater tool) requires the use of efivar > 0.16.

  [Test Case]
  1) Attempt to build fwupdate in 15.04.
     Without efivar >=0.16, the build will fail to complete.
  2) verify that the efibootmgr package in vivid works with the libefivar0 in vivid-proposed.

  [Regression Potential]
  Limited to EFI installations. Issues in efivar may incur specific failures at handling EFI variables through efibootmgr; or when trying to build EFI images (which may show as unexpected behavior in these images).

  However, efivar 0.21 (the suggested version to use) is already
  shipping in 15.10 and has not been causing issues.

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