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general

source: shim (main)
version: 15.8-1
maintainer: Debian EFI team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Steve Langasek [DMD] – Steve McIntyre [DMD]
arch: amd64 arm64
std-ver: 4.6.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 15.8-1~deb11u1
o-o-p-u: 15.8-1~deb11u1
oldstable: 15.8-1~deb12u1
stable: 15.8-1
testing: 15.8-1
unstable: 15.8-1

versioned links

15.8-1~deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
15.8-1~deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
15.8-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

shim-helpers-amd64-signed-template
shim-helpers-arm64-signed-template
shim-unsigned (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 16.1.rc1 high

A new upstream version 16.1.rc1 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-01-02 Last update: 2026-03-17 22:00

Fails to build during reproducibility testing normal

A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!

Created: 2025-02-20 Last update: 2026-03-17 22:01

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 16.1-1, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit d3a076db1f27871c0139777a655b54c52b449add
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 21 15:51:49 2026 +0000

    Add a Closes: for the FTBFS bug #1125741

commit 97bf676d43ac1c34e4d0e8fe35934c17cae2b855
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 16 22:35:50 2026 +0000

    Enable NX for the sid/forky build
    
    We should have a complete NX boot chain now...

commit 7c4bb4e34d694bb0ea91cff1fa525558877d56cc
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 16 22:22:47 2026 +0000

    Bump chosen SBAT revocation level to 2024040900
    
    which means:
    
    shim,4
    grub,4
    grub.peimage,2

commit a8a81e187bf4419db753f1006207dcee72c98bd0
Author: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 17:32:09 2026 +0000

    Update debian/salsa-ci.yml file
    
    Disable blhc - shim is special...

commit 9cae8959e18d34e12cfd3b97cb0a0eec4295e599
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 15:38:50 2026 +0000

    Add lintian overrides:
    
    Ignore included binaries for unit tests

commit 245a781870a4c5e32547aed6b9023b4540645b29
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 15:22:11 2026 +0000

    Add new patch from upstream:
    
    + 0001-Fix-build-with-binutils-2.46.patch

commit 924fd5efbf1ef9908f1a0472553954df5cd0dde0
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 15:19:22 2026 +0000

    Drop old patches, no longer needed

commit 0d172d48e2635cea4d1d6518922eaa87759ebaf2
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 15:14:40 2026 +0000

    Switch to gcc-14
    
    We need a more static version of gcc for reproducibility reasons -
    let's avoid the latest upstream version in the Debian archive which is
    likely to change more quickly.

commit c97e196ef506b411f9e1fd55f91ae5fdf43ac021
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 15:09:18 2026 +0000

    Update to the 16.1 release

commit 326df180a4a40284d9b144edec6cfe34fe1aba07
Merge: 13717fd 55628fe
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 14:58:12 2026 +0000

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/16.1'
    
    Update to upstream version '16.1'
    with Debian dir 4ad99ae6ebb44e4d9ab8d7fa84ce94454aded279

commit 55628fe8e0aa6fd7b809bcdfb544fe5df1d156b6
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 14:58:12 2026 +0000

    New upstream version 16.1

commit 13717fda706d3a8b42d9609be638da08a473ead2
Author: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 16 23:40:57 2026 +0100

    d/copyright: Adjust file names to new version

commit 3f4fcf6274873a78d4d10fe56359a86ce1a152bd
Author: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 16 23:38:42 2026 +0100

    Remove BSD-4-clause-Intel license

commit d1090ac595b2f2d39c5a7df6905e46164bc9518f
Author: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 16 23:11:50 2026 +0100

    Also mangle -rc versions to ~rc

commit 3326d84c2d9cc86f5cbbc8a0ac3a9042acad237e
Author: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 8 13:27:09 2025 -0400

    Switch to gcc-15

commit 23f642c2b2d087929a45fb38519c996d32ce6ca0
Author: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 28 11:51:23 2025 +0100

    d/watch: avoid repacking
    
    to preserve the upstream signature.
    
    Signed-off-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>

commit 7c006cc2f9121b2952c944d7f0ab9a56757ba807
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 3 22:00:43 2025 +0100

    Fix version

commit 7c0a25a8112c3088ac83724c9632f418466edcf9
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 3 21:53:11 2025 +0100

    Update to the 16.1 RC1 release

commit 297ca0a0ec0b75c75c8199c89c3b32fff1db9949
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 3 21:29:32 2025 +0100

    New upstream version 16.1~rc1

commit d0a140f65919d9f2ea4e843b45952e3601388811
Merge: 39df210 297ca0a
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 3 21:29:32 2025 +0100

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/16.1_rc1'
    
    Update to upstream version '16.1~rc1'
    with Debian dir c6b2b2dc3ea7a4c8c6894aa312fb6cdaf02cf04a

commit 39df2103d552e9ee5f7c85133732d28537cd9043
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 20 23:56:04 2025 +0000

    Update to the 16.0 release

commit 49703ccfe798a8eedf2ada1df0bbbbffa77d8c00
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 20 23:54:23 2025 +0000

    New upstream version 16.0

commit f9fe712e8fa2c7b0297351b2ca441fd0c0c4c17b
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 6 23:54:34 2025 +0000

    Switch to using gcc-13 for builds. Closes: #1092205

commit 691831c17769e13bfc7e8908cf735d97ebcc1dae
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 6 23:54:07 2025 +0000

    Test build for 16.0 RC1

commit 366217c2781974103c918132ad065635cbde7844
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 6 23:53:27 2025 +0000

    Tweak changelog

commit b266364840939439800cb0fd4772819677b3ccf7
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 5 23:23:07 2025 +0000

    New upstream version 16.0~rc1.orig

commit 4c1c6af76342a8c1a051e3fe9f8a78c0a0bd90cd
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 17 17:35:37 2024 +0000

    New upstream version 15.8

commit fd67985098863cfd4b61b9746377456ea2540399
Merge: 9032346 ccf52eb
Author: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 24 09:37:34 2025 +0000

    Merge branch 'mr/fix-d-watch-for-RC' into 'master'
    
    d/watch: mangle RC versions
    
    See merge request efi-team/shim!18

commit ccf52eb2256c3448d41c4c8bf45969491256570d
Author: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 24 10:01:30 2025 +0100

    d/watch: mangle RC versions
    
    else 16.0.rc1 gets sorted higher than the final 16.0 release tarball.
    
    Signed-off-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>

commit c9924330d9343d72904a6cb8672b9e4c44df5094
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 20 23:54:23 2025 +0000

    New upstream version 16.0

commit 215056609f874142a1d7ec6775a7a3cf1a627a64
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 5 23:23:07 2025 +0000

    New upstream version 16.0~rc1.orig

commit 90323463f42ddc0c37b816d436e807d4d749846c
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 5 23:07:14 2025 +0000

    Remove Steve Langasek from Uploaders. RIP my good friend.

commit 638db1de7fa7ea696d9a01b14ff9a636fa34b4db
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 8 23:17:19 2025 +0000

    Also make the rules-requires-root changes in the templates
    
    for our generated packages. Closes: #1092425

commit fa4728b6daf0674409b1e0d34a98fcbfb99db5f4
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 4 17:57:54 2025 +0000

    Update changelog

commit aad8a5852bb3c87ad2d1fedaff10d73c43df75c5
Merge: 5757ae8 8d00396
Author: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jan 4 17:52:47 2025 +0000

    Merge branch 'bug-1089432-rootless' into 'master'
    
    shim: Build without requiring root
    
    See merge request efi-team/shim!17

commit 8d003968ca8776c067fc01628971911f0cbd3c52
Author: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Date:   Sat Dec 28 11:58:58 2024 +0000

    shim: Build without requiring root
    
    Closes: #1089432

commit 5757ae8a5b8f58817b1c6906f39bbd339b0e2aba
Merge: 35d8c4a 57b6c43
Author: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 26 21:26:55 2024 +0000

    Merge branch 'remove-ubuntu-files' into 'master'
    
    Remove Ubuntu CA and dbx files from the repository
    
    See merge request efi-team/shim!16

commit 57b6c43301b1943197eef3d816639277869231d7
Author: Mate Kukri <mate.kukri@canonical.com>
Date:   Sun May 26 21:26:55 2024 +0000

    Remove Ubuntu CA and dbx files from the repository

commit 35d8c4ab76290f6e0402f2d5c2b0ae8cc6f807a7
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sun May 5 21:26:43 2024 +0100

    salsa-ci config: Disable i386 builds and arm64 cross-builds

commit a075e58606b9affb6dfb176c71caab816737a981
Author: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 17 17:35:37 2024 +0000

    New upstream version 15.8

Created: 2023-11-02 Last update: 2026-03-16 22:01

1 open merge request in Salsa normal

There is 1 open merge request for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2025-09-22 Last update: 2026-01-22 22:00

lintian reports 8 warnings normal

Lintian reports 8 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2023-02-01 Last update: 2024-05-07 00:13

debian/patches: 2 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 2 debian patches available in version 15.8-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

2 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2024-05-07 00:29

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.6.2).

Created: 2024-04-07 Last update: 2025-12-23 20:00

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[2024-08-25] shim 15.8-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-05-12] Accepted shim 15.8-1~deb10u1 (source) into oldoldstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2024-05-08] Accepted shim 15.8-1~deb11u1 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2024-05-08] Accepted shim 15.8-1~deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2024-05-06] Accepted shim 15.8-1 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2023-03-14] shim 15.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-31] Accepted shim 15.7-1~deb11u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2023-01-31] Accepted shim 15.7-1~deb10u1 (source) into oldstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2023-01-31] Accepted shim 15.7-1 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2022-07-28] Accepted shim 15.6-1~deb10u1 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates->oldstable-new, oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2022-07-28] Accepted shim 15.6-1~deb11u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2022-07-21] Accepted shim 15.6-1 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-07-25] shim 15.4-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-07-12] Accepted shim 15.4-7~deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2021-07-12] Accepted shim 15.4-7 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-07-09] shim 15.4-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-06-23] Accepted shim 15.4-6~deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2021-06-23] Accepted shim 15.4-6 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-05-18] shim 15.4-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-05-08] Accepted shim 15.4-5~deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2021-05-06] Accepted shim 15.4-5 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-05-04] Accepted shim 15.4-4 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-05-04] Accepted shim 15.4-3~deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2021-05-03] Accepted shim 15.4-3 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-04-22] Accepted shim 15.4-2~deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2021-04-21] Accepted shim 15.4-2 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-04-17] Accepted shim 15.4-1~deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2021-04-17] Accepted shim 15.4-1 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)
[2021-03-24] Accepted shim 15.3-1~deb10u3 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Steve McIntyre)
[2021-03-24] Accepted shim 15.3-3 (source) into unstable (Steve McIntyre)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 10 11
RC: 1
I&N: 3
M&W: 3
F&P: 3 4
patch: 0

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