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

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> 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.

That's an even better idea.  Okay, I'll not do anything for the time being
until we get a chance to do that.

> 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.

Hopefully they'll release a new driver, but if not, we should do the same
thing there.

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