[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#704565: release-notes: warning for fglrx-driver users

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Tue Mar 3 17:27:00 UTC 2015


On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 05:56:40PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + help moreinfo wheezy
> 
> On Wed, Apr  3, 2013 at 09:59:38 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> 
> >  Upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy with fglrx-driver will break their 
> >  graphical environment since fglrx upstream dropped such old video card
> >  support from it, and now package maintainers provide such legacy support
> >  as fglrx-legacy-driver package(*).
> > 
> >  Unfortunately, it seems to be late to be included to Wheezy, so we
> >  should __warn__ to our users for it, in release note, at least. 
> > 
> Is this still necessary, or is the migration of 1:12-6+point-3 to wheezy
> sufficient?  If you still want a RN addition, somebody please provide a
> patch.

No feedback since nearly two years and wheezy is stable for a long
time now. Closing, please reopen if you still want to add this to
the Wheezy release notes.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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