Public bug reported:

[ Impact ]

 * The current 0.2 version of libcamera in Noble doesn't support newer
hardware. We will need improvements from the 0.3 series as a basis to
get working a camera on new Intel and AMD laptops and to be able to
enable the PI5 camera.

 * The upgrade include substantial changes to the codebase and a soname
update, it is not compliant to standard SRU guideline but needed for
hardware enablement reasons. We will need to rebuild pipewire and gnome-
snapshot with the new soname.

 * The regression potential should be limited by the fact that libcamera
is a new piece of infrastructure and only used by gnome-snapshot in the
Noble archive.

[ Test Plan ]

 * We will follow those testplans on a variety of hardware with the help
of the OEM team

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/GnomeSnapshot
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/Libcamera
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/Pipewire

[ Where problems could occur ]

 * The update includes a soname change which could lead to upgrade issues 
(packages on hold or removed for example).
 * Pipewire will need to be rebuild so we should verify that there is no 
regression in its webcam support after the upgrade

[ Other Info ]

 * We will likely need to SRU further changes for newer AMD hardware and
PI5 support, this SRU is going to be used as a basis for those future
improvements.

** Affects: libcamera (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
         Status: In Progress

** Changed in: libcamera (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: libcamera (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: libcamera (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

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  [SRU] Update libcamera to 0.3.2 for new hardware support

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