Bug#627743: upgrade for Squeeze?

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-05-24 08:47, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers
> Version: 195.36.31-6

> The most recent hardware supported by Squeeze's nvidia-
> graphics-drivers package is on bargain sale. This means
> that I cannot rely upon Debian Squeeze for large scale
> installations.
> 
> Sid's version 270.41.06-1 builds fine on Squeeze, but
> this is surely pretty painful. IMHO it would be in general
> interest to provide up-to-date nvidia-graphics-drivers
> packages in the official Squeeze repository.

Backporting the current drivers for squeeze-backports is planned, but
first they have to stabilize in testing/unstable ... also some
restructuring in the packaging is currently going on, therefore several
source packages have to be backported.
It's just an issue of spare time ...


Andreas