Bug#787720: systemd: Missing /usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi for "bootctl install"

[Alexander Kurtz]

Dear systemd developers,

On Sat, 06 Jun 2015 20:56:27 +0200 Mathias Brodala <info at noctus.net> wrote:
> But please take into consideration that gummiboot will most likely not
> receive any fixes anymore now that it's part of systemd.

The gummiboot package was removed from testing today [0], mainly
because it's no longer maintained upstream [1]. Therefore testing users
currently can't easily get access to the gummiboot/systemd-boot binary.

I can understand that you want to get the distro integration done right
before enabling systemd-boot (possibly even per default). But please
don't let that stop you from merely *shipping* the bootctl command and
the /usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi binary!

There is a real need for that binary. People like myself are playing
with this (and other new systemd features), but this gets difficult
without an official and up-to-date copy of that binary in the archive.

So please do provide the /usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi binary in the
systemd package even if there is currently no integration whatsoever.

Thank you!

Alexander Kurtz

[0] https://tracker.debian.org/news/697652
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777892#10
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