[MIR] switcheroo-control

[Jeremy Bícha]

Availability
============
Co-maintained with Debian GNOME. In sync with Debian. Built for all supported architectures.

Rationale
=========
Optional dependency ("recommends") for gnome-shell 3.24 and gnome-control-center 3.24. See Background information.

Security
========
No known security issues

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/switcheroo-control
https://launchpad.net/switcheroo-control/+cve

Quality assurance
=================
- Please subscribe Ubuntu Desktop Bugs to this package.

No open Ubuntu or Debian bugs.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/switcheroo-control
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=switcheroo-control
https://github.com/hadess/switcheroo-control/issues

Dependencies
============
All required binary dependencies are in main

Standards compliance
====================
3.9.8

Maintenance
===========
The developer (an active GNOME developer) considers this package to be basically feature-complete.

https://github.com/hadess/switcheroo-control

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-gnome/switcheroo-control.git/

Background information
======================
Package description
-------------------
D-Bus service to check the availability of dual-GPU
 For systems that have both an integrated GPU and a dedicated GPU, this
 package by default will force the integrated GPU to be used to save power.
 .
 You can launch individual apps using the dedicated GPU by running them
 with the environment variable DRI_PRIME=1. Or you can right-click on the
 app (while it's not running) in GNOME Shell's Activities Overview
 and choose the "Launch using Dedicated Graphics Card" option.
 .
 If this default behavior is not appropriate, uninstall this package or
 set xdg.force_integrated=0 as a kernel command-line option in your
 bootloader.

From the packaging bug
-----------------------
gnome-control-center also uses switcheroo-control (if present) to fill in information about both graphics cards in the Details panel.

The project name is derived from the Linux kernel interface it uses:
vga_switcheroo.

http://www.hadess.net/2016/10/dual-gpu-integration-in-gnome.html

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/11/01/discrete-graphics-and-fedora-workstation-25/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

I didn't spot anything blocking. Simple code acting on /sys element.

However, not very useful since limited to nouveau and not nvidia binary driver. Note that I couldn't test it myself.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Override component to main
switcheroo-control 1.2-1 in cosmic: universe/misc -> main
switcheroo-control 1.2-1 in cosmic amd64: universe/gnome/optional/100% -> main
switcheroo-control 1.2-1 in cosmic arm64: universe/gnome/optional/100% -> main
switcheroo-control 1.2-1 in cosmic armhf: universe/gnome/optional/100% -> main
switcheroo-control 1.2-1 in cosmic i386: universe/gnome/optional/100% -> main
switcheroo-control 1.2-1 in cosmic ppc64el: universe/gnome/optional/100% -> main
switcheroo-control 1.2-1 in cosmic s390x: universe/gnome/optional/100% -> main
7 publications overridden.