autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-08-06 17:07, Philipp Kern wrote:
> I gathered. That doesn't answer my point, though. It is the *last* package
> in the archive doing so, instead of using dkms.

There is nvidia-kernel-dkms, too. But for historic reasons we always
provided prebuilt modules for stable and I don't want to change this.

> It does mean that it needs to
> be updated on every kernel ABI bump.

Right, but that hopefully does not happen too often for stable (but the
next ABI bump is already scheduled, as I heard).

> (Also in theory the ABI compatibility
> guarantee of the Debian Linux packages is that they can add new symbols at any
> time, they just won't drop old ones. But I guess that's not as relevant for the
> nvidia packages.

I recently needed to rebuild it for 3.2.0-3 again because of mismatching
symbol versioning without ABI-bump (#683365), that should be doable by a
plain binNMU in the future.


Andreas