[hypothesis]

On the bright side, you can finally mask it in latest Fedora without Software store going haywire and spamming you with useless error messages about it being unavailable.

Still waiting for that to arrive in next Debian…

I’m sure it’s useful to Dell users, but not much to anyone with DIY setups.

[HankB99]

> Still waiting for that to arrive in next Debian…

This is the second comment I've noticed "waiting for it to hit Debian" and I don't understand.

  hbarta@olive:~$ apt-cache policy fwupd
  fwupd:
    Installed: 1.5.7-4
    Candidate: 1.5.7-4
    Version table:
   \*\* 1.5.7-4 500
          500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 
  Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  hbarta@olive:~$

It's even on Raspberry Pi OS and I wonder if it serves any purpose there. Pi firmware is updated via APT unless I misunderstand what I see getting updated (raspi-firmware). Would fwupd handle updates for USB connected devices such as SSDs?

[hypothesis]

Sorry, I should’ve worded it better.

I’m waiting for fixes to Software center, so that there are no visible side effects after masking fwupd. I do know this was addressed in or before Fedora 37, but is an issue in current Debian stable.

The only time I saw fwupd itself working is when it attempted to update uefi firmware in my VM :)