[Bug 1787254] Re: Possibly demote fwupdate to universe?

[Steve Langasek]

Based on the analysis in the previous comment, I'm going to go ahead and
delete fwupdate-signed now from cosmic (and blacklist it).  If at a
later date it is determined that Ubuntu Core does need fwupdate in
Ubuntu 20.04 we can reintroduce it, but in the meantime we shouldn't
carry on producing and signing EFI executables in the archive that we
don't expect to be used.

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Title:
  Possibly demote fwupdate to universe?

Status in fwupdate package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fwupdate-signed package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In cosmic there has been a major transition in the firmware updating
  stack.  fwupdate's library and EFI application were subsumed into
  fwupd 1.1.0+.

  fwupd will manage the installation of the EFI binary now at runtime.
  fwupdate is still around as a reference implementation that doesn't
  use glib or support CAB packaged files.

  As such should fwupdate be dropped down to universe and fwupdate-
  signed be dropped from the archive?

  I'm hesitant to say yes because it's used in system-image seed and
  installed into ubuntu core.  I don't know how this will affect Ubuntu
  core.

  If it is decided to demote to universe and drop the signed package
  then the packaging needs to be configured to strip the generation of
  the EFI signing archive too.

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