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fwupd: Report certain update failures to the user directly

Philip Withnall requested to merge pwithnall/gnome-software:2178-fwupd-errors into main

GsPluginJobUpdateApps correctly does not report errors from plugins to the user, as it can’t tell which plugin errors would be useful to the user, and which are just transient or are noise.

FWUPD_ERROR_NEEDS_USER_ACTION is a fairly obvious candidate for being reported to the user, though. It’s returned by fwupd when an update failed for a reason which the user can potentially rectify.

This is similar to the user action handling code in gs_plugin_fwupd_install_async(), except that it appears the FWUPD_ERROR_NEEDS_USER_ACTION error code is only returned once an operation has been tried, and it cannot be predicted before trying the operation.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall pwithnall@endlessos.org

Fixes: #2178 (closed)

Closes #2178 (closed)

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