Public bug reported:
As of January 2018, the Vulkan packages (libvulkan1, libvulkan-dev,
vulkan-utils) are currently in the Universe repository instead of Main
for Ubuntu 18.04. Since the Vulkan packages are in a mature state and
with future GTK and Qt development looking to adapt Vulkan, it would be
important to have the Vulkan packages available.
This change will affect game developers the most as they will know that
Vulkan will be available to them for future development. There has been
a lot of movement in Mesa 13.3 and above with the RADV driver where it
has matched and exceeded the non-free alternatives. It is essential to
get improved Vulkan support for GNU/Linux in general as we have finally
had a great alternative to OpenGL.
If possible, the movement of mesa-vulkan-drivers out of Universe as well
would be a HUGE benefit. Especially if mesa-vulkan-drivers is installed
by default in Ubuntu 18.04 bringing in full support for Vulkan. This is
helpful especially since Ubuntu 18.04 is a long term support release.
** Affects: vulkan (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: mesa vulkan
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Move Vulkan packages from Universe to Main
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