Dear maintainers,

although I really appreciate your effort to bring an updated fwupd to
bookworm, yet you have sacrificed the modem-manager plugin because unlike
libqmi-glib-dev the dependencies libmbim-glib-dev and libmm-glib-dev are
missing in debian/control which results in [1]:

Dependency mm-glib skipped: feature plugin_modem_manager disabled
Dependency qmi-glib skipped: feature plugin_modem_manager disabled
Dependency mbim-glib skipped: feature plugin_modem_manager disabled

I understand that the package modemmanager would need to be updated to
version 1.22.0-3~ at least because of

libmm_glib = dependency('mm-glib', version: '>= 1.22.0', required: get_option('plugin_modem_manager'))

in plugins/modem-manager/meson.build:1 [2] which in turn would require to
also update the packages libmbim to version 1.30.0-1~ at least and libqmi
to version 1.34.0-2~ respectively.

Could you please consider to update modemmanager together with the
libraries libmbim and libqmi for bookworm-backports at least and then
provide a feature complete version of fwupd in bookworm-backports as
an option?

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle


[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=fwupd&ver=2.0.20-1~deb12u2
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/fwupd/-/blob/bookworm/plugins/modem-manager/meson.build#L1

Can you please share more information about the device that you're
interested in updating.

I would like to better understand when it was first supported, how many
updates it's getting, etc.

Can you please share more information about the device that you're
interested in updating.

I would like to better understand when it was first supported, how many
updates it's getting, etc.

OK, I see.

It is an Lenovo T99W175 5G modem but it really seems to be a Foxconn SDX55
PCIe WWAN module.

Does it really matter how many times there have been updates in the past?
You never know when there will be need of an update, it might be tomorrow
or in a couple of years.  "Prediction is difficult, especially about the
future."

Anyway, just to let you know, I have locally upgraded modemmanager to
version 1.22.0-3 from snapshot.debian.org together with libmbim version
1.30.0-1 and libqmi 1.34.0-2 from snapshot.debian.org as well, and it
actually works quite well with network-manager version 1.42.4-1+deb12u1
(i.e. no other upgrades needed).

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle