Hi - just my two cents trying to clarify a few things.
FYI there are two and a half road-blockers on the way to get this done.
#1 We don't need/want to divert from Debian for that, but there due to a lot of
issues with virgl and being too late for the current release
* Revert "enable virtio gpu (virglrenderer) and opengl support"
Revert "switch from sdl1 to gtk3"
Revert other gtk2/drm/vte/virgl-related changes
Reopens: #813658, #839695
The change were too close to stretch release and too large,
bringing too much graphics stuff for headless servers,
will re-think this for stretch+1.
sdl1 back: Closes: #851509
virtio-3d bugs: Closes: #849798, #852119
#2 most of the needed extra dependencies are not in main, so they will
need to pass the MIR process [1]
#3 (the half one) at least recently virgl had a lot of security issues
spiking the maintenance effort around it, so it seems not safe/mature
enough yet. At least that will affect/deleay a positive security review.
What one could do right now is identifying the exact list of extra dependencies
that this will create on qemu, check which are not in main yet and add them as
[MIR] bug tasks here.
That as a prep for when Debian makes the switch, otherwise we will have to opt
out of that until all dependencies are in main.
[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess
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