prebuilt modules for openvz, xen

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> You probably know better who the right people are to forward this
> question.

I'll mail the kernel team about it.

> Another issue: looks like nvidia-graphics-modules 195.36.31 will get
> into testing before the corresponding drivers are. This is not a problem
> now, but could this be problematic in the future? Possible scenario:
> * 299.xx (driver and modules) is in testing
> * 300.xx (d+m) is in unstable
> * 300.xx prebuilt modules move to testing, removing 299.xx modules
>   - users having 299.xx modules installed are not affected, they will
>     not be removed because nvidia-glx depends on them (but metapackage
>     will try to update)
>   - new installation (testing) of 299.xx driver + prebuilt modules no
>     longer possible

I'm pretty sure the versioned build dependency on nvidia-kernel-source
would have prevented this from happening.  I think britney looks at build
dependencies as well as regular dependencies and ensures they're
satisfiable before migrating packages into testing.

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