Default App: xdiagnose

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 18 15:23:36 UTC 2017


On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 01.09.2017 00:35, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> Is there any good reason why we shouldn't drop xdiagnose from the
>> default install and let it be demoted to universe now?
>
> Once ubuntu-meta etc stop pulling it in, yes. It does ship failsafe-x
> -stuff, but with current gfx stack there already is a proper fallback
> session if the KMS driver fails (fb + swrast), and is less useful anyway
> since we're on wayland now.

Thanks, I filed the User Interface Freeze bug to drop xdiagnose from
the default Ubuntu 17.10 install as https://launchpad.net/bugs/1717946

Jeremy Bicha



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