At upstream level we've been quite busy during December and some releases have been put out before we addressed all the problems, but the good part of it has been that every regression was followed by fixes and lots of new tests to ensure cases that were never tested before or that were just broken are now addressed.
So, yeah we went through some releases but that improved the situation eventually. At the same time the latest upstream version has also been quite well tested by users and is now part (or going to be) part of other other distros stable releases. Not to mention that the regressions we had in the interim releases were mostly related to use cases that were never used in ubuntu (like when using pam_fprintd for sudo unlocking, that requires manual setup). In any case, the main reason for having this out as SRU (other than the various improvements) is the security issues addressed. Security team was happy to have this in, but we preferred to go through the SRU process in order to have better regression analysis. Unfortunately that fix can't be decoupled by other releases (being a big change), and would allow to easily update to a new point release if any problem occurs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1908119 Title: Update and SRU 1.90.8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fprintd/+bug/1908119/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
