Comment 12 for bug 1540692

Aaah... That's sad... Maybe for Ubuntu 18.04! :-D

On 23 May 2017 at 15:09, ChristianEhrhardt <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hi - just my two cents trying to clarify a few things.
>
> FYI there are two and a half road-blockers on the way to get this done.
>
> #1 We don't need/want to divert from Debian for that, but there due to a
> lot of issues with virgl and being too late for the current release
> * Revert "enable virtio gpu (virglrenderer) and opengl support"
> Revert "switch from sdl1 to gtk3"
> Revert other gtk2/drm/vte/virgl-related changes
> Reopens: #813658, #839695
> The change were too close to stretch release and too large,
> bringing too much graphics stuff for headless servers,
> will re-think this for stretch+1.
> sdl1 back: Closes: #851509
> virtio-3d bugs: Closes: #849798, #852119
>
> #2 most of the needed extra dependencies are not in main, so they will
> need to pass the MIR process [1]
>
> #3 (the half one) at least recently virgl had a lot of security issues
> spiking the maintenance effort around it, so it seems not safe/mature
> enough yet. At least that will affect/deleay a positive security review.
>
> What one could do right now is identifying the exact list of extra
> dependencies that this will create on qemu, check which are not in main yet
> and add them as [MIR] bug tasks here.
> That as a prep for when Debian makes the switch, otherwise we will have to
> opt out of that until all dependencies are in main.
>
> [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess
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> Enable the VirtIO GPU 3D (Virgil)
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