SUMMARY In Discover v5.20.5 on Debian11, firmware updates of fwupdmgr are not shown under "Update" in Discover. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. On Debian11 try to update firmware with Discover OBSERVED RESULT No updates are shown even there are available updates according to fwupdmgr update EXPECTED RESULT According to https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/ "KDE Discover is the software center, generally bundled with KDE Plasma. With the release of KDE Plasma 5.14, a new fwupd backend has been implemented in KDE Discover for firmware updates. These firmware updates are shown with other system updates." SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian 11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Discover: 5.20.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Do you have Discover's fwupd backend installed? Some distros don't install it by default.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Do you have Discover's fwupd backend installed? Some distros don't install it by default. No, I didn't have it on Debian11/KDE. Had to install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd and didn't know this was required. It should be installed by default on Debian. I'll create a Debian bug report (they have very outdated bug reporting though so I'm not sure if anybody will read it) but don't know if it's because of the way how firmware integrity is (not sufficiently?) ensured this way. I asked about that here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/689663/how-can-the-integrity-of-firmware-be-ensured-preinstalled-and-fwupd-updates Maybe this can be closed for being an issue of Debian. However, I think the solution would be to have plasma-discover-backend-fwupd as a dependency of Discover. Could it be made a dependency of it please (maybe the issue title should get changed)?
> Maybe this can be closed for being an issue of Debian. However, I think the solution would be to have plasma-discover-backend-fwupd as a dependency of Discover. Could it be made a dependency of it please (maybe the issue title should get changed)? I don't think so, because then any distros that don't ship fwupd or don't want to have it built-in would have to not package discover at all, which would be worse. Please do report it to Debian, if you can manage figure out their unusably bad email-based "bug tracker" system. I never have. :( It's a major reason I never considered using Debian, personally.
Good point and thanks for the infos. The issue is here now: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1005134