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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control new file mode 100644 index 00000000..25b0b47e --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/control @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Source: shim +Section: admin +Priority: optional +Maintainer: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> +Standards-Version: 3.9.8 +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), gnu-efi (>= 3.0u), sbsigntool, openssl +Vcs-Bzr: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/shim/trunk + +Package: shim +Architecture: amd64 +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Description: boot loader to chain-load signed boot loaders under Secure Boot + This package provides a minimalist boot loader which allows verifying + signatures of other UEFI binaries against either the Secure Boot DB/DBX or + against a built-in signature database. Its purpose is to allow a small, + infrequently-changing binary to be signed by the UEFI CA, while allowing + an OS distributor to revision their main bootloader independently of the CA. |