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

[Steve Langasek]

Jared, all of our testing indicates that the old efibootmgr is perfectly
compatible with the newer efivar.  That testing includes creating and
deleting boot entries, changing boot order, etc.  If you have a specific
breakage you can point us to, we will certainly update the efibootmgr
package as well, but we are not seeing any problem that would warrant
that.

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

Status in efivar package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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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