[pkg-nvidia-devel] Removal of buggy packages

[Filipus Klutiero]

Hi,
things have evolved quite a bit.
The release team handled the removal of the 96xx series from testing. 
You should still ask for the removal of 71xx and 96xx from unstable, of 
course. As for the current series, nvidia-graphics-drivers was fixed in 
unstable and testing. So the remaining breakage in testing is limited to 
the prebuilt modules for the current series. My request for their 
removal to the release team has fallen through the cracks. On the other 
hand, these packages are now broken since over a year, and were broken 
for extended periods of time several times before. Would you rather 
request their removal from unstable? Otherwise, I'll prod the release 
team again.

On 2009-09-22 19:31, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Hi,
> the nvidia drivers are mostly broken in testing and unstable.
>
> The following packages are broken in unstable and testing:
> nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx-modules-amd64, 
> nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx and 
> nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx
>
> The following packages are broken in unstable:
> nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx, 
> nvidia-graphics-legacy-71xx-modules-amd64 and 
> nvidia-graphics-legacy-71xx-modules-i386
>
> The following packages are broken in testing:
> nvidia-graphics-modules-i386, nvidia-graphics-modules-amd64 and 
> nvidia-graphics-drivers
>
> It is the package maintainers' privilege (basically) and duty to 
> request removal from unstable, from the archive maintenance team. Even 
> though most of these packages can be fixed, there is currently little 
> manpower so it would be wise to make sure testing and unstable are at 
> least not broken until the bugs can be fixed or the fixed packages 
> transitioned. The current series also has a grave bug report filed 
> against the unstable version, but I'm guessing that's just due to lack 
> of bug triage.
>
> I already requested the removal of the current series from testing, so 
> please just request the removal of the 2 first sets opening 1 or 2 bug 
> reports against ftp.debian.org.