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Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64



On 2018-11-27 21:19 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 20:39:58 -03 Steve Langasek escribió:

> > prepare dual stack packages that use the symbols file magic from
> > Ubuntu, rebuild all the reverse-dependencies, and identify all those
> > packages which are libraries and which end up with a dependency only on the
> > GL version of the package instead of a dependency on GL | GLES.
> > 
> > A fair amount of compile time required to do this analysis, but relatively
> > little human time.
> 
> As long as the human behind it has a way to simply trigger this rebuilds 
> automatically. I think Ubuntu has by using launchpad. We in Debian don't 
> (please prove me wrong!). On my current machine that would take 
> approximately... a couple of months. Without using it for anything else.
> 
> Of course, if anyone feels like doing it... :-)

I've been talking to people about this awkward situation, and it seems
to me that to do this properly either we have a good translation layer
(GL->GLES, and probably GLES->Vulkan too in longer term) or we have
dual stacks available.

I think it's worth investing some effort in determining how practical
these routes are, and the above is something I think is within my
capabilities. I'm not overflowing with tuits, but I do think this is
important so I'm prepared to spend some cycles on it.

Wookey
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