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

[Steve Langasek]

Reverse-dependencies of efivar in the archive:

$ reverse-depends -b src:efivar
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* efibootmgr                    (for libefivar-dev)
* fwupdate                      (for libefivar-dev)
* pesign                        (for libefivar-dev)

$ reverse-depends src:efivar
Reverse-Depends
===============
* efibootmgr                    (for libefivar0)
* fwupd                         (for libefivar0)
* fwupdate                      (for libefivar0)
* libfwup-dev                   (for libefivar-dev)
* libfwup0                      (for libefivar0)
* pesign                        (for libefivar0)

Two of these, efibootmgr and fwupdate, are part of this sequence of SRUs
(bug #1512505, bug #1512518).  This SRU should also include an
assessment of the impact on pesign (which has no other reverse
dependencies in the archive).

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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]
  - Attempt to build fwupdate in 15.04.

  Without efivar >=0.16, the build will fail to complete.

  [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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