Comment 23 for bug 2040139

I've posted some thoughts about patching Ubuntu's edk2 packages in bug 2040137.

Since it was mentioned, just an fyi that I'm working on packaging virt-firmware, initially to provide a migration path away from 2M images for Debian/Ubuntu edk2 users:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1055987
And, eventually, I plan to replace edk2-vars-generator.py in the edk2 build with that.

I don't know that we need to switch edk2 builds over to that before we can patch this. We can always generate our pre-enrolled VARS images at build time using an image that does have a shell, whether or not we choose to continue shipping such an image in the deb.