upload: n-g-d legacy 96xx/71xx

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-07-17 01:53, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
> 
>> please upload
>>   * nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx (96.43.19-2) to experimental
>>   * nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx (71.86.14-3) to unstable
>> Both need to go through NEW.
> 
>> These packages are not really useful (waiting for an upstream update of
>> 96xx for Xorg 1.10; 71xx needing lenny's xorg ...) but I want to get
>> them all in sync ... and afterwards turn 71xx into a set of transitional
>> cleanup packages that can go to testing.
> 
>> Other notes from 173xx apply here, too.
> 
> Hm, does it make sense to upload packages that effectively don't work?  I

96xx is useful for people that already have such an installation and
didn't upgrade Xorg, yet. It's not useful for new installations, but
these are probably rare with such old hardware. New 96xx upload fixes
compatibility with newer kernels.

And a squeeze base system + xorg from lenny + 71xx driver from unstable
is at least installable - I can't test if this really works though.

Andreas