The NVIDIA packages and squeeze

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:13:49 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> On 2010-09-26 11:05, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > I think it's just this one left:
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 21:26:12 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > 
> >>     nvidia-graphics-modules 195.36.31+1
> >>
> > So the prebuilt modules are only for the non-legacy version?
> 
> That's were we started with. The infrastructure is there and we can
> upload prebuilt legacy modules quite fast, but they will have to go
> through NEW. Should we do this? I'm not sure whether we can get them
> tested as good as the nvidia-graphics-modules 195.36.31+1.
> 
OK, unblocked that one.  I guess people can use dkms for the rest.

> > What about nvidia-kernel-common?
> 
> The changes in 20100522+2 compared to 20100522+1 are
> 
> * housekeeping (++Standards-Version, ++debhelper compat, Uploaders,
>   VCS-*, ...)
> * packaging simplification: use dpkg-maintscript-helper for renaming
>   config files instead of hand made code
> 
> It would be nice to have this in squeeze, too.
> 
Doesn't really sound like appropriate freeze-time changes.

Cheers,
Julien
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