Removal of nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-05-16 04:33, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think at this point there's pretty much no hope that NVIDIA will ever
> release a version of this driver that works with current X servers.  My
> inclination is to go ahead and request that it be removed entirely from
> Debian.
> 
> Any objections?

I would prefer to replace it with some transitional packages that, well,
transition to ... a debconf note describing the situation.

The current packages are not installable due to the Xorg conflict and so
eventually were ignored by some people. That way they never got the
cleanup process ran ... having some ancient files (buggy init scripts)
remaining on their systems that could cause trouble in the future.

What will happen to legacy-96xx? I's currently not clear whether Nvidia
will support the new Xorg there ... so we might have to do the same there.


Andreas