** Description changed:

  [Availability]
  Has been in universe since March '16
  
  [Rationale]
- mesa-vulkan-drivers depends on libvulkan1, and once m-v-d is added to 
ubuntu-desktop Depends libvulkan1 will want to migrate
+ mesa-vulkan-drivers depends on libvulkan1, and once m-v-d is added to 
ubuntu-desktop Depends libvulkan1 will want to migrate.
+ 
+ Also gtk4 and qt5 use vulkan now. It is intended to demote qt to
+ universe for 19.04. gtk4 is not expected to enter Ubuntu main until
+ 19.10 (or maybe later).
  
  [Security]
  No known security issues in the past
  
  [Quality assurance]
  - doesn't need any configuration
  - doesn't have any debconf questions
  - all existing bugs are or should be fixed by new packaging in NEW
  - maintained by xorg-team on Debian, synced to Ubuntu
  - has build-time tests
  - debian/watch is used
  - uses python3
  
  [Dependencies]
  all in main
  
  [Standards compliance]
  is compliant
  
  [Maintenance]
  maintained by xorg-team on salsa.debian.org, synced to Ubuntu
  
  [Background information]
  upstream split the source in four, old src:vulkan is going away and 
src:vulkan-loader will be the one to be promoted once it's accepted from NEW.
  
- 
  [original description]
  
  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.

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