Change log for efivar package in Ubuntu

efivar (37-6ubuntu3) mantic; urgency=medium

  * Fix creation of boot options on non-ACPI systems (LP: #2029407)
    d/p/0001-linux-handle-non-ACPI-systems-in-device_get.patch

 -- Heinrich Schuchardt <email address hidden>  Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:21:40 +0200

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• diff from 37-6ubuntu2 to 37-6ubuntu3 (1.5 KiB)

efivar (37-6ubuntu2) impish; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild to build packages with zstd compression.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:11:08 +0200

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• diff from 37-6ubuntu1 to 37-6ubuntu2 (350 bytes)

efivar (37-6ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Ignore stringop-truncation warnings in text_to_guid, seen when building
    with lto.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:59:06 +0200

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• diff from 37-6 (in Debian) to 37-6ubuntu1 (840 bytes)

efivar (37-2ubuntu2.2) focal; urgency=medium

  * Cherrypick upstream patch to fix uninitialized variable in
    parse_acpi_root(), which can lead to a segfault when calling
    grub-install. LP: #1892792.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:25:19 -0700

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• diff from 37-2ubuntu2.1 to 37-2ubuntu2.2 (1.2 KiB)

efivar (37-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ dann frazier ]
  * Add support for nvme-fabrics and nvme-subsystem devices. LP: #1891718.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:37:50 -0600

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• diff from 37-5ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 37-6 (1.3 KiB)

efivar (37-2ubuntu2.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Add support for nvme-fabrics and nvme-subsystem devices. LP: #1891718.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:04:24 -0600

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• diff from 37-2ubuntu2 to 37-2ubuntu2.1 (7.1 KiB)

efivar (37-5ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Add support for nvme-fabrics and nvme-subsystem devices. LP: #1891718.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Sat, 03 Oct 2020 11:09:53 -0600

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• diff from 37-5 (in Debian) to 37-5ubuntu1 (7.7 KiB)

efivar (37-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Cherrypick upstream patch to enable CET on amd64.
  * Cherrypick upstream patch to fix uninitialized variable in
    parse_acpi_root(), which can lead to a segfault when calling
    grub-install. LP: #1892792.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:18:22 -0600

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• diff from 37-4ubuntu2 (in Ubuntu) to 37-5 (2.9 KiB)

efivar (37-4ubuntu2) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Cherrypick upstream patch to fix uninitialized variable in
    parse_acpi_root(), which can lead to a segfault when calling
    grub-install. LP: #1892792.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:21:15 -0600

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• diff from 37-4ubuntu1 to 37-4ubuntu2 (1.5 KiB)

efivar (37-4ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Cherrypick upstream patch to enable CET.
    - Only enable cf-protection flags on amd64.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:29:44 -0600

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• diff from 37-2ubuntu4 to 37-4ubuntu1 (5.1 KiB)

efivar (37-2ubuntu4) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Only enable cf-protection flags on amd64.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden>  Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:15:56 +0100

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• diff from 37-2ubuntu2 to 37-2ubuntu4 (1.4 KiB)
• diff from 37-2ubuntu3 to 37-2ubuntu4 (511 bytes)

efivar (37-2ubuntu3) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Cherrypick upstream patch to enable CET.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden>  Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:24:47 +0100

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• diff from 37-2ubuntu2 to 37-2ubuntu3 (1.3 KiB)

efivar (37-2ubuntu2) eoan; urgency=medium

  * Backport more fixes from upstream that fix efibootmgr -v. (LP: #1844320)

 -- Michael Hudson-Doyle <email address hidden>  Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:50:57 +1200

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• diff from 37-2ubuntu1 to 37-2ubuntu2 (1.5 KiB)

efivar (37-2ubuntu1) eoan; urgency=medium

  * Fix build failures with GCC 9 (upstream commits). Closes: #925672.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:59:20 +0200

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• diff from 37-2 (in Debian) to 37-2ubuntu1 (2.8 KiB)

efivar (37-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick fix from upstream:
    + Get rid of the arrows in our debug messages. (Closes: #922680)

 -- Steve McIntyre <email address hidden>  Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:55:07 +0000

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• diff from 37-1 to 37-2 (2.8 KiB)

efivar (37-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version (37)
  * debian/rules:
    - Correct for new Makefile variables.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:33:40 -0600

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• diff from 34-1ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 37-1 (94.6 KiB)

efivar (34-1ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/fix-wrong-open-flags.patch: Fix wrong flags when
    opening variable in append mode.  Closes LP: #1791222.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden>  Thu, 06 Sep 2018 22:53:34 -0700

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• diff from 34-1 (in Debian) to 34-1ubuntu1 (1.3 KiB)

efivar (34-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Steve McIntrye ]
  * Move git repo from alioth to salsa.d.o

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * New upstream version (34)
  * Drop all patches (upstream)

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:07:12 -0600

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• diff from 32-2 to 34-1 (49.5 KiB)

efivar (32-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Backport a patch that allows fwupdate 10 to compile.
  * Fix FTCBFS: (Closes: #843261)
    + Pass CROSS_COMPILE to make
    + 0001-Add-a-patch-from-Helmut-Grohne-for-cross-compiling.patch

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:24:57 -0600

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• diff from 32-1 to 32-2 (3.9 KiB)

efivar (32-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version (32)
  * update standards version

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:12:18 -0500

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• diff from 31-1 to 32-1 (16.6 KiB)

efivar (31-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version (31)
  * Fixes FTBFS with gcc-7 (Closes: #853384)
  * Drop all patches (upstream)

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:49:01 -0500

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• diff from 30-1ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 31-1 (22.0 KiB)

efivar (30-1ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Correct NEWS format to satisfy lintian warnings
  * Backport a patch to fix builds that fail from multiple definitions

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:55:03 -0500

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• diff from 0.23-2 (in Debian) to 30-1ubuntu1 (43.4 KiB)
• diff from 30-1 (in Debian) to 30-1ubuntu1 (1.2 KiB)

efivar (30-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * new upstream version (30)
  * Update dell email addresses (_ -> .)
  * Move to new SONAME based upon upstream commit b729026
    - Additional details are available in debian/NEWS.
  * Add x32 to architectures (Closes: #777261)
  * Build with -flto by default, to avoid efivar issue #60

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden>  Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:00:08 -0500

efivar (0.21-1~14.04.2) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Remove spurious Breaks for efibootmgr; the efibootmgr in 14.04 does not
    have a runtime dependency on libefivar0 so no Breaks is needed.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden>  Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:17:14 -0400

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• diff from 0.21-1~14.04.1 to 0.21-1~14.04.2 (581 bytes)

efivar (0.21-1~12.04.1) precise; urgency=medium

  * Backport efivar to 12.04; to support mokutil. (LP: #1574727)
    - debian/patches/port-nvme-support.patch: define the NVME ID IOCTL (only
      required to successfully build on precise).
    - debian/patches/port-char16_t-support.patch: provide a char16_t type
      without depending on new unicode in C11, gcc 4.4 already has the
      CHAR16_TYPE we need to provide the feature.
    - debian/patches/precise-gcc-options.patch: Drop -std=gnu11 to -std=gnu99,
      and -Wmaybe-uninitialized completely.
  * debian/control: remove spurious Breaks for efibootmgr; the efibootmgr in
    12.04 does not have a runtime dependency on libefivar0 so no Breaks is
    needed.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden>  Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:08:16 -0600

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• diff from 0.23-2 (in Debian) to 0.21-1~12.04.1 (17.4 KiB)

efivar (0.21-1~14.04.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Backport efivar to 14.04; to support mokutil. (LP: #1574727)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden>  Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:22:03 -0400

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• diff from 0.23-2 (in Debian) to 0.21-1~14.04.1 (16.3 KiB)

efivar (0.23-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Backport patches to fix fwupdate working on NVMe drives from efivar master.

  [ Daniel Jared Dominguez ]
  * Remove debug output in debian/rules I forgot to take out.

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Fri, 11 Mar 2016 01:43:01 -0600

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• diff from 0.23-1 to 0.23-2 (2.1 KiB)

efivar (0.23-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Steve McIntyre ]
  * Correct upstream information - https://github.com/rhinstaller/efivar

  [ Peter Jones ]
  * Sometimes the compiler doesn't like { 0, } as an initializer...
  * Set the correct value for SATA port multipliers when there isn't one.
  * Make our definitions for efi_well_known_guid* consistent.
  * Make the makefile a lot simpler to deal with.

  [ Felix Janda ]
  * Use the more portable major() instead of gnu_dev_major()

  [ Peter Jones ]
  * Treat minor device numbers in sysfs as unsigned.
  * Make the compiler enforce strict symbol versioning.

  [ Lans Zhang ]
  * Fix getting back a wrong relpath

  [ Peter Jones ]
  * Make library objects depend on generated sources so make -jN works better.
  * Fix .PRECIOUS / .INTERMEDIATE / .SECONDARY to avoid unneeded rebuilding.
  * libefivar: Try to do a better job on SATA.
  * libefivar: explicitly link with libdl
  * Format ACPI _ADR device lists in hex, not decimal.
  * Return the right offset in format_vendor_helper()
  * libefiboot: Make efidp multi-instance iteration actually work.
  * Show a closing ) on vendor console device paths.
  * Temporarily use --add-needed when linking libefivar.so
  * Ignore efivar-static in the rpm .spec
  * Mark more of our exports with "default" visibility.
  * Make makeguids generate guid-symbols.c instead of .S
  * efivar: Don't list padding from the end of efi_well_known_guids with -L
  * Make LDFLAGS get set right from the rpm build
  * Make -fPIC and -fPIE work as they should, and default correctly
  * Use gcc -specs= for most command line stuff normally.
  * libefiboot: figure out nvme device paths better.

  [ Sylvain Chouleur ]
  * Rename endian.h into efivar_endian.h to avoid conflicts

  [ Steve McIntyre ]
  * Multiple fixes for compilation with gcc 6

  [ Peter Jones ]
  * Make efivar work with immutable efivarfs files.
  * Release 0.22

  [ Mike Gilbert ]
  * Make.defaults: Improve gcc/clang detection

  [ Felix Janda ]
  * Compile without -fshort-wchar

  [ Peter Jones ]
  * Make guids be in correct byte order both in text and ram...
  * Put "-L." is in LDFLAGS so we don't need installed libefivar to build.
  * Make gcc.specs work with gcc 6 / binutils 2.26
  * Make df78c364 actually work.
  * Try to pretend 0.22 didn't happen by making 0.23 the next day.

  [ Daniel Jared Dominguez ]
  * don't need current quilt patches after merging 0.23
  * deal with kernel 4.4's botched NVMe header reorg
  * use debian-policy 3.9.7.0
  * update watch file
  * we need pkg-config to build

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:25:19 -0600

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• diff from 0.21-1 to 0.23-1 (14.8 KiB)
• diff from 0.21-2 to 0.23-1 (16.7 KiB)

efivar (0.21-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * update VCS info
  * use debian-efi as maintainer
  * Multiple fixes for compilation with gcc 6. Closes: #811609

 -- Steve McIntyre <email address hidden>  Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:35:09 +0000

efivar (0.21-1~15.04.1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Backport efivar to 15.04; to support fwupdate. (LP: #1512501)
  * debian/control: remove spurious Breaks for efibootmgr.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden>  Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:08:16 -0600

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• diff from 0.15-3 (in Debian) to 0.21-1~15.04.1 (64.3 KiB)

efivar (0.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Don't override dh_auto_test anymore since it's not needed now.

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:45:14 -0500

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• diff from 0.20-4 to 0.21-1 (10.0 KiB)

efivar (0.20-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upstream says that we don't want to run "make test" on our buildds so don't

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:54:08 -0500

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• diff from 0.20-3 to 0.20-4 (568 bytes)

efivar (0.20-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Exclude the padded NULL when comparing the file size in vars_del_variable()

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:01:23 -0500

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• diff from 0.20-2 to 0.20-3 (940 bytes)

efivar (0.20-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Use a more standard soname version.

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:35:15 -0500

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• diff from 0.20-1 to 0.20-2 (2.5 KiB)

efivar (0.20-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * ACK'ing Mario's changes

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:04:03 -0500

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• diff from 0.19-4 to 0.20-1 (3.4 KiB)

efivar (0.19-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Mario couldn't let me go another hour without a patch:
    Adjust linker order for pkg-config to fix FTBFS on Ubuntu toolchain

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:22:27 -0500

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• diff from 0.18-1+really0.15-3 to 0.19-4 (62.6 KiB)
• diff from 0.19-2 to 0.19-4 (1.6 KiB)

efivar (0.19-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upstream: Work around LocateDevicePath() not grokking PcieRoot() devices 
    properly.

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:40:23 -0500

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efivar (0.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * All quilt patches upstream

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Fri, 29 May 2015 10:39:38 -0500

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• diff from 0.18-1+really0.15-3 to 0.19-1 (60.8 KiB)

efivar (0.18-1+really0.15-3) unstable; urgency=high

  * Apparently we didn't want efivar 0.18 yet because it breaks current 
    efibootmgr (Closes: #785786)

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Thu, 21 May 2015 16:13:48 -0500

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• diff from 0.15-3 to 0.18-1+really0.15-3 (599 bytes)
• diff from 0.18-1 to 0.18-1+really0.15-3 (58.8 KiB)

efivar (0.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * We didn't actually skip 0.1[67], they just weren't really released upstream
  * Remove all previous quilt patches since they're upstream now
  * We need to remove includ of pci/pci.h
  * I guess I want debian-policy 3.9.6.1. Where do all these periods come from?

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Fri, 08 May 2015 14:40:37 -0500

efivar (0.15-3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Partially fix #773007 by defining DataSize based on whether our kernel is
    32/64-bit.

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:26:58 -0600

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• diff from 0.15-2 to 0.15-3 (2.7 KiB)

efivar (0.15-2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Apply upstream patches (Closes: #764386)

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:07:39 -0600

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efivar (0.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release
  * Clear out the quilt patch series 

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:26:08 -0500

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• diff from 0.14-1 to 0.15-1 (1.6 KiB)

efivar (0.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release
  * Declare efivar binary package Multi-Arch: foreign
  * libefivar-dev should be Multi-Arch: same
  * Upstream patch a01d1062 to fix 32-bit x86

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:43:56 -0500

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• diff from 0.10-5 to 0.14-1 (19.1 KiB)

efivar (0.10-5) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Better debian/watch file

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:26:10 -0500

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• diff from 0.10-4 to 0.10-5 (555 bytes)

efivar (0.10-4) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Add 07-assembly-comment.patch to fix armhf builds (Closes: #752273)
  * Rename man page patch to match Ubuntu.

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:27:22 -0500

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• diff from 0.10-2ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 0.10-4 (1.4 KiB)

efivar (0.10-2ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Pull two patches from upstream git to satisfy main inclusion review:
    - 05-balign.patch: Use .balign instead of .align to fix armhf build.
    - 06-manpage.patch: Replace broken stub manpage with a real manpage.
  * 07-assembly-comment.patch: Swap in % for @ to fix assembly on armhf.
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>   Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:07:56 -0600

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• diff from 0.10-2 (in Debian) to 0.10-2ubuntu1 (2.5 KiB)
• diff from 0.10-2ubuntu1~ppa1 to 0.10-2ubuntu1 (1.1 KiB)

efivar (0.10-2ubuntu1~ppa1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Pull two patches from upstream git to satisfy main inclusion review:
    - 05-balign.patch: Use .balign instead of .align to fix armhf build.
    - 06-manpage.patch: Replace broken stub manpage with a real manpage.
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>   Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:07:56 -0600

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• diff from 0.10-2 (in Debian) to 0.10-2ubuntu1~ppa1 (2.1 KiB)

efivar (0.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fix shlib-with-executable-stack lintian warning in libefivar0 

 -- Daniel Jared Dominguez <email address hidden>  Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:58:19 -0500