Bug#965293: Please backport mesa to stable (buster)
Control: severity -1 important
Changing this bug from severity whishlist to important, as that severity
description seems to match the situation more closely:
a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without
rendering it completely unusable to everyone.
All people using AMD RNDA 1.0 GPUs, which got released since almost a
year ago, cannot use any graphical session due to old mesa.
The current kernel in backports is 5.9.6+1~bpo10+1[0], which supports
this and newer GPU releases; so the single thing still breaking usage
is the old mesa version in buster and no backport available.
So again, please, consider releasing a current testing version to
backports.
FWIW, this would not be a new precedent, in Debian Stretch we got
regular backports, starting not even a year after Stretch got
released[1], so having no backport in Buster, which got released almost
1.5 year ago, seems a bit odd.
regards,
Thomas
[0]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1198182/accepted-linux-signed-amd64-5961bpo101-source-into-buster-backports-buster-backports/
[1]: https://tracker.debian.org/news/955405/accepted-mesa-1739-1bpo91-source-amd64-into-stretch-backports-stretch-backports/
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