In Gentoo fwupd is stuck at 1.8.x branch. This is a request to add fwupd-1.9.x as well.
1.8 is the still-maintained stable branch and frankly, I am not convinced I want to add an unstable one to the tree. What do _you_ think, slashbeast?
I am with you, one of the things that I do not feel like it would benefit users or us for that matter, unless there are reported things that are impossible with current upstream-stable release, I'd skip it until it's shipped as stable.
hmm, I never thought of fwupd latest as unstable SW. I suspect 1.9.x will become "stable" once 1.10.x starts.
I couldn't actually find where it says 1.9.x is "unstable", though. Could you show me?
If you navigate to https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases you will see that upstream refers to 1.8.x line as stable in recent releases, and as just 'release' in 1.9.x, the 1.8.x line continues to get fixes as stable even after 1.9.x was pushed out of the window, this for me indicates that upstream thinks of 1.8.x as stable and continues to bug fix it.
Ah, cool. But that doesn't mean it's unstable either. 1.8.x could easily be LTS for purposes of Debian or whatever, rather than unstable. Maybe ask upstream on their IRC?
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/discussions/5925 TLDR: 1.9.x isn't unstable
In that case perhaps it would make sense to add this version. I can try to schedule some time for it for tomorrow, unless you have any concerns @Marek?
Fine by me, go for it.
Right, here we go. Hope I haven't missed anything!
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=038f20225932587696589da093bc57443d4fcbd5 commit 038f20225932587696589da093bc57443d4fcbd5 Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-07-11 14:19:45 +0000 Commit: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-07-11 14:20:22 +0000 sys-apps/fwupd: add 1.9.3 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/908659 Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> sys-apps/fwupd/Manifest | 1 + sys-apps/fwupd/fwupd-1.9.3.ebuild | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 195 insertions(+)
(In reply to Marek Szuba from comment #10) > Right, here we go. Hope I haven't missed anything! Thanks, I will install it once it hits our mirror :)
