[Bug 1956768] [NEW] [MIR] fwupd-efi

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer):

fwupd was split into fwupd and fwupd-efi as part of bug 1955386, however
the fwupd-efi package is in universe.  As the previous fwupd package was
already in main, the fwupd-efi source package that stemmed from it
should also be brought into main.

Both fwupd-signed and fwupd have a Recommends on fwupd-unsigned, which
is provided by the fwupd-efi source package.

[Availability]
The package fwupd-efi/source, fwupd-signed/amd64, fwupd-unsigned/amd64, is already in Ubuntu universe.
It currently builds and works for architectures: amd64
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupd-efi

[Rationale]
fwupd is a utility that upgrades bios and lots of firmware of HW components so that they got the last fix from HW vendor.

It has already existed in main for quite a long time. The only reason we
need MIR is the source code split to kind of de-couple the efi
and user-space utility.

[Security]
Given this is a source code split, the security-related issue should have
be properly handled previously.

[Quality assurance - function/usage]
Same as above. If you need further detail on a certain point, please kindly state your request.

[Quality assurance - maintenance]
Same as above. If you need further detail on a certain point, please kindly state your request.

[Quality assurance - testing]
Given this is an EFI app pkg, and it upgrades OS bios, it's not so trivial to test. We do have certain test steps in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/firmware-updates.

[Quality assurance - packaging]
fwupd-efi-1.1$ lintian --pedantic
E: fwupd-efi changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable
W: fwupd-amd64-signed-template: empty-binary-package
P: fwupd-efi source: silent-on-rules-requiring-root
P: fwupd-efi source: uses-debhelper-compat-file

[UI standards]
This is an EFI app, it provides text mode UI in English and no user interactivity.

[Dependencies]
$ apt-cache depends fwupd-signed
fwupd-signed
  Recommends: secureboot-db
  Recommends: fwupd-unsigned
  Recommends: fwupd

All it’s depends is in main after this MIR is done.

[Standards compliance]
All good per what I know.

[Maintenance/Owner]
It’s properly and actively maintained from upstream:

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd-efi
https://fwupd.org/

[Background information]
Given this is a source code split re-MIR, I think it’s quite obvious.
Related links are provided above.

** Affects: oem-priority
     Importance: Critical
     Assignee: Yuan-Chen Cheng (ycheng-twn)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: fwupd-efi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Committed


** Tags: oem-priority
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[MIR] fwupd-efi
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1956768
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