[pkg-nvidia-devel] nvidia in testing

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:06:21PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Is there a specific reason to keep nvidia out of Lenny?
> 
> non-free packages have never moved to testing automatically.  It has had
> nothing to do with the freeze as far as I know.

Are you sure?
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=nvidia-graphics-drivers
suggests that it's not in lenny because no kernel modules packages are
present, rendering nvidia-glx and thus everything completely
uninstallable.  IIRC this was an issue in etch as well.  I don't
remember how it was solved, but I think the modules were manually built
and uploaded once it was clear which version of nvidia-graphics-drivers
and the kernel were going to be released.

noah

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