Public bug reported:
[Availability]
fwupdate is available in universe and builds on all the architectures it is
designed to work on (amd64, i386, armhf, arm64)
[Rationale]
fwupdate is a new EFI component for processing firmware updates for systems
which support it. It will be used to allow users to run these upgrades, if
their EFI BIOS allows, without the need to boot into Windows since it might not
be available to them. This is only available for users with UEFI.
[Security]
There are no security reports open for fwupdate. However, fwupdate also ships
an EFI binary and as such requires careful security review. Moreover, the
fwupdate userland binary writes to ESRT tables in order to speak to the
fwupdate EFI binary, so should benefit a security review of its own.
[Quality assurance]
Meets requirements. The package currently has bugs filed, but they are already
handled although must wait to be fixed as they would require another round of
signing of the EFI binary by Microsoft.
[UI Standards]
The application is translatable, although currently lacking is translations due
to its relative newness.
[Dependencies]
All build and binary dependencies are in main.
[Standards compliance]
The package meets standards.
[Maintenance]
The package is quite small and does not require much effort on our part to
maintain, aside from the occasional signing for the fwupdate EFI binary. It is
maintained by the Debian EFI team in Debian; and <fill in> for Ubuntu.
[Background information]
fwupdate is a command-line too as well as an EFI binary for use to enable and
apply firmware updates using the UEFI Capsule Update specification, which
allows for flashing new firmware on BIOS or system components without requiring
the use of a specific operating system, given that it can be done directly from
the EFI firmware interfaces.
** Affects: fwupdate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Incomplete
** Changed in: fwupdate (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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