Availability: lp:mir, ppa:mir-team/system-compositor-testing
Rationale: Required for Unity System Compositor (MIR bug 1203588)
Security: No known security issues
Quality assurance: no major bugs, one open for consideration of MIR - bug 1203070
UI standards: N/A
Dependencies: All in main except for libglm-dev (MIR bug 1176083), libgoogle-glog-dev (MIR bug 1151844), liblttng-ust-dev (MIR bug 1203589)
Background:
Mir is the new display server planned for introduction into 13.10
unity-system-compositor is a component needed for the xmir configuration to work and leverage Mir for 13.10
These components have been available and are currently being tested as part of the ppa:mir-team/system-compositor-testing
there are no major bugs and its introduction is expected not to interfere with saucy.
the XMir functionality being introduced will allow the X to continue in standalone mode if there is a failure.
Opened bug 1203588 to track MIR for unity-system- compositor