Comment 5 for bug 1908119

I have discussed this update with Marco, and have looked over the changes. While they do appear substantial, it is mostly due to the switch away from GDBus.

OEMs have been asking us to enable the fingerprint devices on their hardware for a while now, and the current daemon has security issues that need to be addressed. Since fprintd is pretty much self-contained, I feel like a one-time update to the latest version is in our interest going forward in the LTS release. This will allow us to easily fix any further security issues if they come up once fprintd gets to be more widely deployed as the codebase will closely resemble the current upstream version.

I would like to point out that we need to make sure during testing of this SRU that configured fingerprint devices continue working after the upgrade, not only after a reboot but also in the current session after a background update.

Once the update has been successfully SRUed with adequate testing, I will rebuild it in the -security pocket.