Bug#620526: Removal of nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-71xx

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Tue May 17 10:48:36 UTC 2011


On 2011-05-16 19:22, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
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