[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 :)