[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#534873: Bug#534873: Bug#534873: would be nice if nvidia-glx-ia32 185.18.14-2 amd64 could be in testing as soon as possible

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:24:21AM -0700, Randall Donald wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:36 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:56:32AM -0700, Randall Donald wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 10:04 +0200, Pierre Bauduin wrote:
> > > > Package: nvidia-glx-ia32
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > 
> > > What's funny about this is you want a package to be in testing but
> > > filing a RC bug just added to reasons preventing that. 
> > 
> > What does it take for non-free packages to move to testing?  Is it
> > automatic or not?  With 2.6.30 now in testing, nvidia-glx no longer
> > works in testing until we get the new version moved in.
> > 
> The testing transition first requires a kernel module package to satisfy
> the dependancy. Add to that no RC bugs.  And even then some manual
> trickery might be required. 

I thought the excuse entry of 'section non-free/X11' might need manual
intervention.

So can we build and upload the kernel modules or should we bug the
kernel-modules-non-free package person to add us (since that should
now work)?

-- 
Len Sorensen