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From: Mario Limonciello
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 10:32:49 AM
To: Robie Basak ; Mario Limonciello
Cc: ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com ; Richard
Hughes
Subject: Re: Refine the firmware-updates exception
Robie,
My apologies; my email didn't get
Robie,
My apologies; my email didn't get a response a while and I was on leave
a while when your response came back and I totally missed it.
Your comment on bug 1979963 prompted me to find it though!
On 3/7/24 08:00, Robie Basak wrote:
Hi Mario,
Thank you for caring for the fwupd package
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 14:00, Robie Basak wrote:
> Probably the relevant reasons in the case of this package would be for
> hardware enablement purposes, or in the case of "Internet protocol"
> changes (eg. for fwupd, perhaps the mechanism to fetch updates is
> changing and will no longer work).
Hi Mario,
Thank you for caring for the fwupd package in Ubuntu!
One adminsitrative question: fwupd is in main and the Foundations team
are committed to looking after it. Is your proposal made on behalf of or
in coordination with the Foundations team? If not, what's the Foundation
team's view on
Hi,
The existing firmware-updates exception was granted by the release team a
number of years ago:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/firmware-updates
This worked relatively well at the time, but a few notable changes have
happened since then:
- More security sensitive updates to the OS such as "UEFI
