Bug Description

[Availability]

Builds on amd64 only in Ubuntu and syncs from Debian. GameMode was designed primarily as a solution to the Intel and AMD CPU powersave or ondemand governors, and intended for gaming; hence why it is amd64 only.

[Rationale]

We would like to enable GameMode as it allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS and improve gaming performance.

The Ubuntu desktop team intend to seed gamemode.

[Security]

No CVE/known security issue. GameMode includes an user daemon that modifies the CPU governors and GPU clock state through pkexec-ed helpers.

[Quality assurance]

- The desktop-packages team is subscribed to the package

- 2 bugs in Debian BTS which are being investigated. None in LP.

- The package is actively maintained in Debian and in sync in Ubuntu.

- No test suite, but difficult to integrate with autopkgtest due to hardware requirements.

[Dependencies]

All the Depends: are currently in main. There are no Recommends:

- init-system-helpers (>= 1.52)

- libc6 (>= 2.27)

- libsystemd0 (>= 221)

- libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14)

[Standards compliance]

The package is using current (dh12) standards, the standards-version is 4.4.0, the package is in sync from Debian.

[Maintenance]

Upstream is active and the desktop team is going to look after the package in Ubuntu.