MIR: mesa-vulkan-drivers FFE: install by default

Bug #1742714 reported by Teg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mesa (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
vulkan-loader (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
xorg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Timo Aaltonen

Bug Description

MIR mesa-vulkan-drivers:
- is from mesa, which is already in main
- maintained just as mesa is, by ubuntu-x-swat

MIR vulkan-loader:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vulkan-loader/+bug/1742711

FFE:
- new packages in the default install (mesa-vulkan-drivers, libvulkan1)
  -> no chance of regressing anything

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A Vulkan related bug was filed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vulkan/+bug/1742711, but in a related note, having mesa-vulkan-drivers moved from Universe to Main and installed by default in Ubuntu 18.04 is crucial. Vulkan has gotten mature and since the OpenGL drivers are installed, it will very complimentary.

Having this available will aid game developers and users who load up a Vulkan application and get errors. They may not know to enable Universe in their Software Manager and to manually install mesa-vulkan-drivers for their video card. They may just load up that Vulkan application, find out it doesn't work, and then give up on it. We cannot have that for future adoption of the API.

Plus, GTK and Qt are adopting Vulkan and applications like Gnome MPV are implementing experimental support for Vulkan. For Ubuntu being a leader for the desktop and a base for GNU/Linux gaming, shouldn't it be painless for Ubuntu 18.04? Especially since it is a long term release for 5 years.

Tags: mesa vulkan
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

a package would need to depend on it

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

xserver-xorg will Recommend mesa-vulkan-drivers

affects: mesa (Ubuntu) → xorg (Ubuntu)
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
summary: - Move mesa-vulkan-drivers from Univers to Main and install by default in
- Ubuntu 18.04
+ MIR: mesa-vulkan-drivers FFE: install by default
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
description: updated
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

there's an older bug for src:vulkan-loader, let's use that
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vulkan-loader/+bug/1742711

description: updated
Changed in vulkan-loader (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

moving back to the metapackage

affects: xorg-server (Ubuntu) → xorg (Ubuntu)
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.7+19ubuntu10

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xorg (1:7.7+19ubuntu10) disco; urgency=medium

  * control: Add mesa-vulkan-drivers to xserver-xorg Recommends. (LP:
    #1742714)

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:54:57 +0200

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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