Bug#993171: mutter: Is it time to stop patching synaptics support back in?

[Simon McVittie]

Source: mutter
Version: 40.2.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc:  daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com

We are currently patching both mutter and gnome-control-center to reinstate
synaptics support, a change that was specifically rejected by upstream in
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/37>.

This seems to have been intended to be a temporary thing for Ubuntu 18.04.
Since then, we've had two stable releases of Debian and two LTS releases
of Ubuntu, and GNOME in Debian has switched to Wayland by default; so
it seems like it might be worth revisiting that decision. Do we still
need the synaptics X11 driver, or is libinput now enough?

    smcv