Backport gnu-efi 3.0.8 to all supported releases for SHIM

syslinux in bionic and newer need a small fix to avoid FTBFS now that gnu-efi provides memset() and memcpy().

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnu-efi into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu-efi/3.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnu-efi into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu-efi/3.0.8-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnu-efi into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu-efi/3.0.8-0ubuntu1~14.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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This bug was fixed in the package syslinux - 3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1

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syslinux (3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild against gnu-efi 3.0.8 with necessary porting (LP: #1790709)
    - debian/patches/remove-VPrint.patch: Don't redefine VPrint(), since it's
      provided by gnu-efi.
    - debian/patches/gnu-efi_3.0.8_support.patch: filter out memset, memcpy
      objects, since they are provided by gnu-efi.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:21:11 -0400

Rebuilds in PPA have all passed -- the failures for efitools are exactly the same as they previously were and due to EFI not being available (or sbsigntool, efivar, etc.) on those architectures:

https://launchpad.net/~cyphermox/+archive/ubuntu/rebuild-tests/+packages

In any case, amd64 (the only arch that built for efitools) has not regressed.

syslinux for bionic needs a patch, which in currently waiting in the bionic unapproved queue.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnu-efi has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package gnu-efi - 3.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1

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gnu-efi (3.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 3.0.8. (LP: #1790709)
  * debian/patches: drop patches, included upstream.
  * Reinstate d/p/ARM-hide-hidden-pragma-for-hosted-build.patch; otherwise
    sbsigntool fails to build on armhf.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:09:02 -0400

shouldn't syslinux also get a versioned build-dependency on gnu-efi for this?

This bug was fixed in the package gnu-efi - 3.0.8-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

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gnu-efi (3.0.8-0ubuntu1~16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 3.0.8. (LP: #1790709)
  * debian/patches: drop patches, included upstream.
  * Reinstate d/p/ARM-hide-hidden-pragma-for-hosted-build.patch; otherwise
    sbsigntool fails to build on armhf.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:28:31 -0400

This bug was fixed in the package gnu-efi - 3.0.8-0ubuntu1~14.04.1

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gnu-efi (3.0.8-0ubuntu1~14.04.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 3.0.8. (LP: #1790709)
  * debian/patches: drop patches, included upstream.
  * Reinstate d/p/ARM-hide-hidden-pragma-for-hosted-build.patch; otherwise
    sbsigntool fails to build on armhf.
  * debian/patches/intptr_define.patch: include stdint.h from inc/efilink.h.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:30:59 -0400

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted syslinux into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/3:6.03+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

The verification-done-bionic tag has not been re-set after the syslinux package has been accepted. Did all the validation steps have been performed for the package after it has been re-built? I see the test-case defines some functionality tests - are those also required in this case?

Looks like there are some cases where syslinux will fail to load modules with the proposed rebuild patch with the new gnu-efi. This is a regression in syslinux; marking as verification-failed.

Fixing is required in cosmic as well since the issue is with the patch used for gnu-efi 3.0.8 support. Disco is "unaffected"; I've synced with Debian which has already fixed the issue.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted syslinux into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.18.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted syslinux into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.18.10.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted syslinux into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/3:6.03+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.18.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

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syslinux 3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.18.10.2 verification-done in cosmic:

I've build new d-i images (mini.iso for netboot) in a PPA with the use of the new syslinux in cosmic-proposed; the images were bootable and correctly showing the minimal gfxboot menu expected for mini.iso.

So, obviously no issues in rebuilding syslinux with the new version of gnu-efi.

This bug was fixed in the package syslinux - 3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.18.10.2

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syslinux (3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.18.10.2) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/gnu-efi_3.0.8_support.patch: We're using -zuldefs, but also
    still need to be doing the LIBS filtering correctly. Oops. (LP: #1790709)

syslinux (3:6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.18.10.1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/gnu-efi_3.0.8_support.patch: link syslinux.so using
    -zmuldefs rather than filtering out memset and mcmcpy; as it won't risk
    symbol errors when running vesamenu in some scenarios. (LP: #1790709)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:14:13 +0100

The fix for this bug has been awaiting testing feedback in the -proposed repository for bionic for more than 90 days. Please test this fix and update the bug appropriately with the results. In the event that the fix for this bug is still not verified 15 days from now, the package will be removed from the -proposed repository.

The version of syslinux in the proposed pocket of Bionic that was purported to fix this bug report has been removed because the bugs that were to be fixed by the upload were not verified in a timely (105 days) fashion.