The vulkan enchillada

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Wed Oct 15 21:59:27 CEST 2025


On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:36:09AM +0000, Jan Rękorajski wrote:
> Can someone explain which vulkan packages are correct and current?
> There are (lower letter) packages like vuilkan-sdk that seem to be some
> old versions and (capital letter) Vulkan-Tools seemingly built from the
> same source, newerm but they don't seem to have the same functionality?
> 
> Can we have some clarity on this? Maybe, at least, capitalization
> unification? Can some of the packages ve deleted?

vulkan-sdk.spec is some very old version.
Its source repo has been split, some of components have been refactored
(e.g. ValidationLayers).

Vulkan-*.spec have Obsoletes for most of vulkan-sdk.spec parts, but so
far I haven't found what happend to DebugLayers.
Maybe we could just obsolete it.


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