[Bug 1900935] Re: Support to upgrade Synaptic fingerprint firmware from LVFS

[Mario Limonciello]

II is a great point.  Part of the original reason for keeping fwupd
major version locked in stable series was concerns to breaking other
components in Ubuntu such as gnome-software (ubuntu-software).  Since
that has now transitioned to snap this is no longer a blocker.  And as
you pointed out the dbus interface is stable for it.

Brian, I think it's worth reconsidering the approach now for this
reason.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to fwupd-signed in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1900935

Title:
  Support to upgrade Synaptic fingerprint firmware from LVFS

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Confirmed
Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fwupd-signed package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in fwupd source package in Bionic:
  Won't Fix
Status in fwupd-signed source package in Bionic:
  Won't Fix
Status in fwupd source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in fwupd-signed source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in fwupd source package in Groovy:
  In Progress
Status in fwupd-signed source package in Groovy:
  In Progress
Status in fwupd source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released
Status in fwupd-signed source package in Hirsute:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Versions of fwupd older than 1.4.6 can not support upgrading Synaptics
  fingerprint readers.

  
  [Test Case]
  Try to update firmware from a synaptics fingerprint reader.

  [Regression Potential]
  This will require moving to fwupd 1.4.6 which is newer than the release in focal.  The patches for Synaptics fingerprint reader support depend upon daemon code that is not present in the 1.3.x series.

  There may be potentially other bugs with moving to this release.  More
  devices are supported which might mean exercising extra code paths.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1900935/+subscriptions