[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#583312: nvidia bug also with nouveau driver

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Russ Allbery]
> The only purpose served by making this bug against the non-free
> NVIDIA drivers RC is that Debian squeeze would just not ship with
> the non-free drivers *at all*, since so far as I can tell there
> isn't much we can do in the packages to solve this problem.

Well, another purpose might be to document the severity of the issue,
independent of the effect it has on the package currenty having the
bug assosiated with it.

If you really believe this issue can't be fixed in the nvidia driver,
and also believe the issue need to be fixed before squeeze is
released, you could clone and reassign it to all the display manager
packages to get them to increase their timeout to a value you believe
make sense, while keeping the severity RC.  After all, if the issue
should be fixed and the nvidia driver isn't the place to fix it, the
issue should be passed on to those that you believe should fix it. :)

> In the meantime, I don't see any reason to block migration of the
> packages to testing or release with squeeze for this bug.

RC bugs do not block propagation to testing if they are found in the
version in testing as well as the one in unstable.  If you want to
avoid this blockage, you could indicate that the issue is also found
in testing (which I believe it is according to the comments in this
bug :).

RC bugs might cause the package to be thrown out of testing, of
course.  But if the nvidia drivers and kdm fail to get a working X
desktop out of the box in Debian/Squeeze, perhaps it is better to
delay the release or drop support for nvidia than to release with the
problem in place. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen