[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#551151: Removal of buggy packages

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:
> Filipus Klutiero <chealer at gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

> Please don't do either of those things.  We will be uploading a new
> version of the metapackage that builds them and take care of them at
> that time.  Removing them is just a waste of time for the people
> removing them, since we'll just upload them again shortly thereafter.

Ack, sorry, I fail reading comprehension.  For some reason I kept thinking
you were talking about unstable.

Feel free to remove them from testing if you want.  The goal is to get a
set of modules built against the current ABI in unstable now that it's
probably stabilized relatively well for the release and get them to
propagate to testing normally.

The existing packages in testing are useless; please feel free to remove
them however is easiest.  Once the packages from unstable propagate,
they'll be no longer built from source and presumably will go away
semi-automatically.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>