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Can libnvidia-egl-wayland1 please be updated to the github release.

Asked by anon x machina

If libnvidia-egl-wayland1 is an essential package for (nVidia Users) kDE-Ubuntu / Debian based Distro's can we please get it updated to the latest version: 1.1.12

https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland
version: 1.1.12
- Added support for version 4 of the Linux DMA-BUF protocol
- Added support for EGL_EXT_explicit_device extension
- Fixed incomplete window resizing regression from 1.1.10
- Fixed eglSwapInterval when using DMA-BUF path

The libnvidia-egl-wayland1 package was last updated in 2021 and has none of the above fixes.

Why is libnvidia-egl-wayland1 and essential package?

Because in Plasma Wayland session, if this lib is not installed, then LLVMPIPE is used instead of the nVidia Driver (all releases)

Timo Aaltonen is the original maintainer for ubuntu.

Timo Aaltonen is also the maintainer for the package in Debian which is also outdated.

I do appreciate how incredibly busy everyone is.

Thankyou

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-EGL-Explicit-Device
https://wayland.app/protocols/linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1
https://registry.khronos.org/EGL/sdk/docs/man/html/eglSwapInterval.xhtml

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Please see this FAQ about the possibilities to request a SRU or backport:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

In addition you have to be aware tha Ubuntu is copying packages from Debian (to avoid double packaging work) and also Debian does not have a package with version 1.1.12 yet.
You might consider creating a bug report in the Debian bug tracker. Once that Debian has prepared a new package, this will be copied into Ubuntu's development release.

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anon x machina (anon-x-machina) said : 		#3

Thankyou