[Bug 1571679] Re: fwupdate-signed doesn't get installed on upgrade

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Yes, I have hit this bug with my laptop during xenial release sprint. My
understanding was that we have agreed to make -signed to be installed by
default, however naive approach was shut-down due to dependency cycle
(can't remember exactly now). At the time I have manually installed
-signed to get the fwupdates working. But we should be install -signed
by default. Similar to how installers no longer make destinction between
signed/unsigned installs -> we always install both, as one can flip
between signed and unsigned boot throughout the lifetime of the machine.

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)

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Title:
  fwupdate-signed doesn't get installed on upgrade

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  This machine was upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 installed in UEFI mode.  After upgrading fwupdate gets installed (as it's Recommends for ubuntu-desktop) but fwupdate-signed isn't installed.  The net results is that even though this machine now supports firmware updates (in 16.04), upon upgrading they can't be used when secure boot is turned on.
   
  Ubuntu 16.04 fresh install behavior is to install fwupdate-signed if the machine is running in UEFI mode so that firmware support will work if the machine supports it.

  
  So the update process should query whether installed in UEFI mode and if so also mark fwupdate-signed for installation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.04.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Apr 18 09:18:10 2016
  DistributionChannelDescriptor:
   # This is a distribution channel descriptor
   # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
   canonical-oem-somerville-trusty-amd64-osp1-20150720-0
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-03 (14 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20150720-04:06
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-18 (0 days ago)

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