Ship mesa-utils per default

[Thomas Hotz]

Often users ask why their graphics card is not listed in Details -> Graphics, so this will be solved if mesa-utils would be shipped by default.

I know you can't ship everything, but it would solve the problems that often people don't know why there simply stands "Unknown" in the Graphics sections.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: mesa-utils 8.0.1+git20110129+d8f7d6b-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 17 13:39:10 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-17 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20121217)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: mesa-demos
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

You did not mention where you were finding the "Details -> Graphics" links, but I'm gathering it was Gnome Shell, which is a universe package. However, we ship Unity rather than Gnome Shell as the default environment, Unity does not require anything from mesa-utils currently. So moving mesa-utils into main and installing it by default is inappropriate, as it would unnecessarily bloat the install image size.

Instead, if mesa-utils is required by Gnome Shell, it should be listed as a Recommends in the gnome-shell packaging.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

In other words I think gnome-shell need something such as the attached patch.

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

Actually I think this is referring to the Details tab in gnome-control-center. In which case its not really specific to gnome-shell since the same issue will occur with Unity

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Yes, the problem is that gnome-control-center currently needs mesa-demos for the Details panel to work correctly. Either we need to fix gnome-control-center to not need that or we should just ship the fairly small binary package.

I'm marking this a duplicate of bug 914631 where this was originally reported.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

In Unity at least in raring there is "About this computer" and then I see the information and without mesa-utils installed it won't show the graphic details.