backporting nvidia to squeeze

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-11-15 00:16, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Hi Russ,
> 
> On 2011-11-07 00:48, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
>>
>>> now that most things have settled, I think time has come to consider
>>> backporting the current nvidia driver to squeeze. In about a week my

everything has reached testing that needs to be backported

>>> last upload series should enter wheezy and we will have a driver there
>>> that supports Xserver 1.11 without slowing down on older cards.  To get
>>> a working backport, we need
> 
> * glx-alternatives (0.2.0~bpo60+1)
> * nvidia-support (20111111+1~bpo60+1)
> * nvidia-graphics-drivers (275.36-0~bpo60+1)
> 
> Everything is prepared in SVN in branches/squeeze-backports.
> 
> It would be nice if you could upload them, eventually the upload date
> should be bumped at that time.
> 
> I tested multiple update scenarios with piuparts and so far this seems
> to work fine.

Andreas