Bug#873578: xserver-xorg-video-all: Consider removing xserver-xorg-video-intel as Recommended, or downgrade to Suggested

[Itai Shaked <itaisha@gmail.com>]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-all
Version: 1:7.7+19
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The description of the package `xserver-xorg-video-intel` says:

 > The use of this driver is discouraged if your hw is new enough (ca. 2007 and
newer). You can try uninstalling this driver and let the server use it's
builtin modesetting driver instead.

I think it is safe to assume that in 2017, the vast majority of Debian users
will have hardware meeting this criteria, so having `xserver-xorg-video-all`
Recommend `xserver-xorg-video-intel` seems wrong.
For almost all users, having `xserver-xorg-video-intel` not recommended at all,
or at the very least downgraded to Suggested status, would make much more
sense.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all depends on:
ii  xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu   1.3.0-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati      1:7.9.0-1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev    1:0.4.4-1+b5
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau  1:1.0.15-2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa     1:2.3.4-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware   1:13.2.1-1+b1

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-all recommends:
pn  xserver-xorg-video-intel  <none>
pn  xserver-xorg-video-qxl    <none>

xserver-xorg-video-all suggests no packages.

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