[Bug 1772588] Re: Remove obsolete X11 drivers from the archive

[Timo Aaltonen]

apparently -evdev has some use still:

11:10 < whot> evdev handles some devices that libinput ignores, mostly
the generic button boxes and weird devices

** Description changed:

  xserver-xorg-video-all has not depended on these drivers for quite some
  time now, meaning that installation images didn't have them either nor
  installed them on the system. Now would be the time to drop them from
- the archive well before next LTS and in preparation for xserver 1.20
- which would need pointless patching for these drivers that essentially
- no-one uses.
+ the archive before next LTS & HWE-18.04 stack and in preparation for
+ xserver 1.20.
+ 
+ 
+ Some rationale in detail for future reference:
+ input:
+ -aiptek: no upstream release in 7 years
+ -elographics: no upstream release in 6 years
+ -evdev: replaced by -libinput
+ -keyboard: replaced by -libinput
+ -mtrack: no upstream release in 3 years, should be replaceable by -libinput by now
+ -mouse: replaced by -libinput
+ -mutouch: no upstream release in 7 years
+ -void: xserver can start without an input driver these days
+ -xwiimote: no upstream release in 5 years
+ video:
+ -ast: no release in 3 years, no KMS support
+ -mach64: no KMS support
+ -neomagic: no release in 3 years, no KMS support
+ -r128: no KMS support
+ -savage: no KMS support
+ -siliconmotion: no KMS suppport
+ -sisusb: no KMS support
+ -tdfx: no KMS support
+ -trident: no KMS support
+ 
+ Fedora dropped drivers without KMS (kernel modesetting) support five years ago:
+ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188429.html
+ 
+ one exception to this is -openchrome, which we'll keep since it has some
+ users and might even get KMS support before next LTS.

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Description changed:

  xserver-xorg-video-all has not depended on these drivers for quite some
  time now, meaning that installation images didn't have them either nor
  installed them on the system. Now would be the time to drop them from
  the archive before next LTS & HWE-18.04 stack and in preparation for
  xserver 1.20.
  
- 
  Some rationale in detail for future reference:
  input:
  -aiptek: no upstream release in 7 years
  -elographics: no upstream release in 6 years
- -evdev: replaced by -libinput
+ -evdev: replaced by -libinput (not entirely, see comment #1)
  -keyboard: replaced by -libinput
  -mtrack: no upstream release in 3 years, should be replaceable by -libinput by now
  -mouse: replaced by -libinput
  -mutouch: no upstream release in 7 years
  -void: xserver can start without an input driver these days
  -xwiimote: no upstream release in 5 years
  video:
  -ast: no release in 3 years, no KMS support
  -mach64: no KMS support
  -neomagic: no release in 3 years, no KMS support
  -r128: no KMS support
  -savage: no KMS support
  -siliconmotion: no KMS suppport
  -sisusb: no KMS support
  -tdfx: no KMS support
  -trident: no KMS support
  
  Fedora dropped drivers without KMS (kernel modesetting) support five years ago:
  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188429.html
  
  one exception to this is -openchrome, which we'll keep since it has some
  users and might even get KMS support before next LTS.

** Also affects: xserver-xorg-video-geode (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Description changed:

  xserver-xorg-video-all has not depended on these drivers for quite some
  time now, meaning that installation images didn't have them either nor
  installed them on the system. Now would be the time to drop them from
  the archive before next LTS & HWE-18.04 stack and in preparation for
  xserver 1.20.
  
  Some rationale in detail for future reference:
  input:
  -aiptek: no upstream release in 7 years
  -elographics: no upstream release in 6 years
  -evdev: replaced by -libinput (not entirely, see comment #1)
  -keyboard: replaced by -libinput
  -mtrack: no upstream release in 3 years, should be replaceable by -libinput by now
  -mouse: replaced by -libinput
  -mutouch: no upstream release in 7 years
  -void: xserver can start without an input driver these days
  -xwiimote: no upstream release in 5 years
  video:
- -ast: no release in 3 years, no KMS support
+ -ast: no upstream release in 3 years, no KMS support
+ -geode: i386 only, no kernel support since moving to i586 (or i686?)
  -mach64: no KMS support
- -neomagic: no release in 3 years, no KMS support
+ -neomagic: no upstream release in 3 years, no KMS support
  -r128: no KMS support
  -savage: no KMS support
  -siliconmotion: no KMS suppport
  -sisusb: no KMS support
  -tdfx: no KMS support
  -trident: no KMS support
  
  Fedora dropped drivers without KMS (kernel modesetting) support five years ago:
  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188429.html
  
  one exception to this is -openchrome, which we'll keep since it has some
  users and might even get KMS support before next LTS.

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  Remove obsolete X11 drivers from the archive

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