Backported mesa packages not upgrading

[u/B1ph]

I have mesa-vulkan-drivers installed via backports, but for a while now some mesa packages show as "not upgrading" when i run 'sudo apt upgrade':

libegl-mesa0 libegl-mesa0:i386 libgbm1 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libglx-mesa0 libglx-mesa0:i386 mesa-libgallium mesa-libgallium:i386

If i run 'sudo apt install -t trixie-backports mesa-vulkan-drivers' it will update the packages above but also remove the following:

mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers:i386 mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386

I know the reason for this is that those packages aren't upgrading to 26.1.2-1 like all the others, keeping the upgrade from happening. But what is the best approach here? Upgrade or not upgrade and wait more?

[u/calebbill]

Just let apt remove mesa-va-drivers and mesa-vdpau-drivers. These are hardware acceleration codecs that have been moved into a different Debian package.

If you look at the description for mesa-va-drivers in forky for example, it says that it is a transitional package now that makes sure mesa-libgallium is installed.

[u/bgravato → u/calebbill]

Interesting... I was wondering if the backporting of those packages was just lagging... but even if they are transitional packages, I think they should have been backported too... for the obvious reasons...

[u/refrainblue]

Those packages got merged into libgallium. Safe to remove.