Re: Backport firmware updating stack to Jessie

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi,


some of the below libraries got a soname bump between jessie and stretch.

I think you should get in touch with the respective maintainers, try to have them
do the backports, and then try to mitigate the remaining packages.
e.g. appstream-glib got a soname bump.

I'm not happy in backporting stuff with a different soname (not even sure if allowed)


cheers,

g.


Il Mercoledì 20 Aprile 2016 23:36, "Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com" <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> ha scritto:




Hi,
 
I’ve been working on the command line stack for UEFI firmware updates in unstable the past few months and it’s now in a good enough state that I would like to backport it to stable for people to use with relevant hardware.
The actual stack that is used for updates is fwupd/fwupdate.
 
Unfortunately because of changes in the code bases for these to fix lots of issues there are a variety of other packages that need to be backported as well.
 
I have all of the backported packages (source and amd64 binaries) available here:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~superm1/fwupd-backport-jessie/
 
Here’s a summary of all the packages backported:
package Why 
appstream-glib Dependency for fwupd 
efibootmgr Issues found with NVMe disks 
efivar Dependency for fwupdate and efibootmgr 
fwupd Relevant stack 
fwupdate Relevant stack 
gcab Dependency for appstream-glib, also NEW to Jessie 
gdk-pixbuf Dependency for appstream-glib 
gnu-efi Dependency for efivar 
json-glib Dependency for appstream-glib 
libgusb2 Dependency for fwupd 
libsoup2.4 Dependency for appstream-glib 
libusb-1.0 Dependency for fwupd 
 
Can I please get a review?
 
Thanks,
 
Mario Limonciello
Dell| CPG Software Engineering