nvidia-graphics-drivers for squeeze-backports?

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Ansgar,

On 2011-03-31 15:26, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> I got my hands on a computer that needed a newer version of the nvidia
> drivers (nvidia-graphics-drivers and nvidia-common) than currently
> provided in Squeeze.  Both worked fine after rebuilding the version
> currently in testing for squeeze.
> 
> I was wondering whether there is further interest in backports of these
> packages and whether the NVIDIA maintainers would be interested in
> providing such a package.

We, the Debian NVIDIA Maintainers, plan to provide squeeze backports,
but so far priority has been with getting the new versions into unstable
and the changes synchronized with the legacy variants.

Both Russ and I are currently quite busy with our real life jobs, so
things here are moving slower than we would like.

Andreas