Comment 7 for bug 1956128

> If it were up to me then the rule would be whether OpenGL is supported in the associated Mesa and kernel drivers

Until recently, QEMU/QXL would have been without display drivers by your standard, including LTS releases that will be supported for quite some time still. Given the default targets including new Pis as they come out, that standard would remove entire targets from Ubuntu's purview that are works in progress. Given that Vulkan is becoming a common backend and LLVMPipe exists, how does OpenGL of an unlisted version even make sense? This standard also has changed since you originally said a year based range and subsequently modified it when I posted the actual dates relating to new products and sale ranges.

> xserver-xorg-video-all is a metapackage

Metapackages have both depends and recommends all the time. That is the norm. Both the Intel and QXL X11 packages are recommends of xserver-xorg-video-all, not required dependencies. In fact, even xorg has a recommended package for scalable x fonts.

I am just asking that an old ATI package for a dead company, gets the same treatment as Intel regarding recommended status even though Intel is still alive. Intel still gets pulled in by default. Nothing has changed there. This isn't explicit removal, at all.