[Bug 2056548] Re: fwupd metadata bug due to outdated version in Ubuntu 22.04 repositories

[Mario Limonciello]

JFYI, Noble already has 1.9.14, this request is for Jammy.  There are a
bunch of other Jammy specific bugs that would be fixed by such a SRU.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+source/fwupd

The SRU process (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdate) has an
exception for fwupd (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/firmware-updates) that
/should/ allow migrating from 1.7.x to 1.9.x.


** Also affects: fwupd (Ubuntu Jammy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: fwupd (Ubuntu Jammy)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: fwupd (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  fwupd metadata bug due to outdated version in Ubuntu 22.04
  repositories

Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fwupd source package in Jammy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu 22.04 repositories have fwupd version 1.7.9. This is a
  badly outdated version that cannot cope with some of the newer
  updates.

  (This doesn't affect all updates, and so it affects only some machines
  depending on the hardware being supported.)

  EXAMPLE:

  $ fwupdmgr refresh
  Failed to update metadata for lvfs: checksum failure: failed to verify data, expected 0a5a850327f8e8b196b2d79e79ce347cb86037f1

  This has been discussed in the GitHub for fwupd:
  https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/6888

  This problem was solved in the newest version of fwupd.

  The snap store currently has the latest version of fwupd, version
  1.9.14.

  LONG-TERM SOLUTION

  Therefore, the Ubuntu repositories for 22.04 must be updated either to
  have the latest version of fwupd, or to replace it with the snap
  version (in the same way as Firefox does).

  WORKAROUND

  For people currently having this problem, the current solution is to
  uninstall the apt version fwupd (this is important) and then install
  the snap version of fwupd.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: fwupd 1.7.9-1~22.04.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-25.25~22.04.1-generic 6.5.13
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Mar  8 12:14:03 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-08-28 (558 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
  SourcePackage: fwupd
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs-testing.conf: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs.conf: [modified]
  mtime.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs-testing.conf: 2022-11-23T08:07:53.266347
  mtime.conffile..etc.fwupd.remotes.d.lvfs.conf: 2022-11-23T08:07:53.358347

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