[MIR] miral

[Gerry Boland]

[MIR] MirAL is an ABI-preserving abstraction layer for Mir, insulating them from mirserver ABI breaks.

This will be used by QtMir/Unity8:
https://bileto.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/2160

[Availability]

Package available in universe since yakkety and built for all architectures.

[Rationale]

This package is crucial for future uses of mir. It's also to become a binary dependency of unity8 which is a main package (as per the Bileto ticket URL above).

[Security]

No security issues found so far. The package is actively maintained - any future security issues found can be fixed in a timely fashion.

[Quality assurance]

The package is released through Bileto and each release is preceded with QA testing by the Ubuntu QA team.

[Dependencies]

All binary package dependencies are in main.

[Maintenance]

The package is maintained and owned by the mir development team.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This is mostly fine. Symbols file, bug subscriber, etc. But it doesn't run tests because it's missing some build-deps. Seems like it needs mir-renderer-gl-dev and/or mirtest-dev. Add those as deps and we're in business I think.

[Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)]

That's a Mir bug lp:1651391 do we need a workaround in miral?

[Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)]

Landing a workaround (and a couple of other cherrypicked bugfixes) in silo 2317

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

That silo landed.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Looks good to me after re-checking the items listed by mterry earlier; the tests are now being run (well, there's just one...), and the package otherwise looks reasonable and is subscribed to by ~mir-team. MIR approved.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Moved to main.